Word: jam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...word cards while Network engineer Thomas Schneider '52 duly recorded same. But when Young played back his disc he found it kept him awake. For nearly a whole night he lay fretfully in his bed while his phonograph repeatedly droned Greek. At the end of his Hellenic jam session he did know his word cards and grammar...
...Crimson two mile relay team of Dave Cairns, Dave Gregory, Joe Rosen, and Art Ruby got caught in a jam at the start, and finished last. Brown, led by Joel, Jonathan, and Joshua Toby, won this race...
Ranger Coach Lynn Patrick had found a way to jam Detroit's high-velocity forward line of Lindsay, Gordon Howe and Abel by borrowing from platoon football. He simply used his own second line as a defensive unit whose chief function was not to score but to keep the Wings from scoring. When Detroit's main-line trio of Lindsay, Howe and Abel skated onto the ice, so did Patrick's nuisance line. When Lindsay & Co. were called off the ice to rest between sallies, so were their Ranger shadows. Then Coach Patrick inserted the line that...
...chalk-marked lanes, he has done the quarter-mile in 46 seconds, faster than any man in history. But when he tried to run on indoor tracks, where the footing is treacherous and lanes are nonexistent, he learned that he needed more than sheer speed; when fields jam up on sharply banked indoor turns, a judicious elbow shove can throw the fastest man off his stride and out of the running. Said Runner McKenley: "I didn't know how to defend myself...
...Herb McKenley resolved to learn how to run indoors. For the best training he went to South Orange, N.J., put himself under the tutelage of canny Johnny Gibson, track coach at Seton Hall College. He described his past boners and phobias: "I worry so much about getting into a jam that I forget about pacing myself. Once I get in with all those elbows I'm licked and drop back. It's either ahead or behind. I hate that pack...