Word: horning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high-school team because "his feet didn't match." Now he is the glamor boy of college basketball. George ("Scaffold") Mikan stands 6 ft. 9 in his socks, weighs 227 lbs., sleeps in an 8-by-6 bed and looks like a gangling Harold Lloyd, even to the horn-rimmed spectacles. To keep his elongated bones together, De Paul University's mild-mannered Mikan makes away with a daily breakfast of oatmeal, a half dozen eggs, ham, angel cake, three cups of coffee, a cod-liver pill...
...most spirited contest of the week, however, was the Adams-Lowell thriller on Wednesday, which Adams won, 22 to 21, gaining revenge for a previous debacle. As the final horn was sounded, Lowell held a 20 to 19 advantage, but Baskell and Donahoe committed a multiple foul on high-scorer Monty Singer of the Gold Coasters. The unique affair ended as Singer colly sank two fouls...
...Rafferty strode of to meet Dave Schneider and Bob Weeks going up for some of the same. Weekend is the only man in the class beside Mr. Lindsay nursing a ski injury. He get his taking a suicide leap at Groton last week. Also at the Statler was the horn looking for the colt with no success "T Lad" was long ago occupied elsewhere...
...need of adequate fire protection is urgent. . . . The method of alarm at present is totally inadequate. It consists of an old motor horn of the press-bulb type, implemented vocally by the fire chief...
Within little more than a month, they drew their first blood. Sent to protect Horn Island, one of the Forty-niners' three squadrons, the Seventh, went up one day to intercept Jap raiders, downed five without loss to themselves...