Word: iced
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About the year 1800 it was the custom for boys in Merrie England to amuse themselves by whacking dead cats up and down he gutters. In the course of time some of the boys found that footing was better on the ice. Gradually the dead cat ceased to be used as a target, being replaced by a puck. However, even to this day the British persist in calling the puck "the cat", and "the kit." The general adoption of steel skates speed up the game, adding interest and thrills, and insuring lasting popularity for the sport...
Facing Notre Dame's hockey team for the first time in history tomorrow night at the Arena, the Crimson ice squad will go through its last pre-game workout this afternoon...
...Notre Dame team is led by its speedy left wing, Hicock. The chief star of the team is the centre, McSorley. On right wing is Martin, while the visitors from Indiana will present a husky all-football defense on the Arena ice. Boeringer, All-American centre, will share secondary defense duties with McGrath, fullback on last fall's eelven. Murphy in goal for Notre Dame has a considerable reputation as a puck stopper...
Never before in the history of scales has such a tremendous undertaking taken place in America. Rising sheer above the frozen waters, ice covered, of the lake discovered by Champlain and called after hind, Lake Champlain, rises Mt. Slowly, towering to the full glory of its two thousand feet...
...Lake George, N.Y., a speck that had crawled swiftly over the map from Long Island descended upon the lake ice, which crackled, boomed, broke through. Natives pushed out in a rowboat, rescued the half-sunken plane's three people, who registered at a hotel as A. L. & Mrs. Caperton, and Pilot J. P. Herman, of Garden City...