Word: jumbo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is Tufts first year of New England League hockey since the war, but last year an informal Jumbo squad earned good notices for itself in games with local rivals...
Coach Norman Shepard used a shifting defense--man-to-man on the outside. But to keep his defenders from being screened by the weaving Jumbo offense, he often had them switch men on the outside. This kept the middle so well bottled up that in the first half, Mullaney was the only Jumbo who could break through and score with any consistency. Mullaney got six field goals in the first period, but was held to two in the second. In that period, Tufts had to rely mainly in the long set-shots on Captain Al Perry...
...Benedict's Center under the administration of Father Feeney considers that it is doing a charity to those Catholic students who want to have the dogma of their Church clarified. "Students are too intelligent to listen to the mumbo jumbo of the interpretations--the saying of one thing in Latin and another in English," Father Feeney says. "They want their Church principles made as clear to them as the wording of the Constitution of the United States...
Bombay's health department, by using some statistical mumbo jumbo, had concluded that the city's rat population was 3,200,000 and that each rat's gnawing cost ten rupees ($3.02) a day. When the city councillors heard that last week, they got into a squabble along ideological lines...
Even on the jumbo or Texas-sized map of Texas, the cattle and oil town of Electra (pop. 7,500) is hardly bigger than a fly's off-hind footprint. But to its mayor, a hulking, oil-rich, ex-circus roustabout named T. Leo Moore, Electra is the pearl-handled, goldplated, diamond-studded axle of the universe. When the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway threatened to have its streamlined Texas Zephyr blow through Electra without stopping, Mayor Moore began to paw dirt...