Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Goes the Money. Prices at the 16-day fair were higher than ever: Cokes, 13? hot dogs and hamburgers, 25?; coffee, 10?; rides, 25?; ice cream sticks, 25?. But prosperous Texans seldom batted an eye. Hundreds "took in everything," spent as much as $50 a couple...
...interception gave Eliot the necessary points to whitewash the staunch Commuter eleven. Dave McGiffert passed to Pete Reiner for the first Mastodon tally which came in the second quarter, and Dick Coe's interception and 60 yard run late in the fourth period put the game on ice for the team from "E" House...
...Staunton, Va., City Manager W. Guy Ancell hoped that, by raising the water level in the city's North River dam, he could save the $300,000 it would cost to build a new reservoir. So he tried bombing cumulus clouds with dry ice. But no rain fell. All that happened was that citizens started calling him "Old Rain-in-the Face" and an elderly constituent sternly advised him to "leave God's work alone and straighten out the traffic mess...
...with such colleges as B.C. and Holy Cross. Hockey seems to be on its way up, although Yale and Dartmouth teams still overshadow the Crimson, the Elis having the use of a rink daily and Dartmouth having natural too while all Boston teams struggle to share what little artificial ice there is. Wrestling, attracted crowds last winter which bordered on Indoor Building basketball turnouts. Bingham attributed this to the popularity of Coach Clarence (chief) Boston, and to such crowd pleasing grapplers as heavy-weight Pete Fuller. Meanwhile, swimming and baseball lag far behind. "Baseball hasn't paid since...
Just before sunset one day last week, cool John Cobb of London squeezed his 200 lbs. into the cockpit of his two-engined, ice-cooled racing car. It was his last chance of the year: the rainy season was at hand on Utah's Bonneville salt flats. The cowling was bolted into place on top of him; a truck gave the car a push. At 20 m.p.h., the engine coughed and then settled into a steady roar. At 140 m.p.h., Cobb shifted into second gear, into high at 240 m.p.h. About halfway down the 14 mile course he entered...