Word: jumbo
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...preliminary to the Varsity game, which starts at 8:30 o'clock, Coach Al McCoy will send his Jayvee quintet onto the floor against the Jumbo B squad. They will try to approach the phenomenal score of 70 to 22 that they rolled up against the Portsmouth marines in their last contest. Varsity Lineups Gray l.f. Burgbacher Gantt r.f. Skarda Decsi c. Barnhart Mariaschin l.g. McCurdy Champion r.g. Cooney
...Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson, (weight: 224 lbs.) Chief of the British Joint Staff Mission in Washington, who was Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean...
Many U.S. critics have hailed Author Remains' jumbo panorama with awe. Wrote Critic Clifton Fadiman who has been awed all along: "When the little ones ask, 'Grandfather, what did you do before the revolution?' perhaps the only answer many of us will be able to make will be, 'I was a contemporary of Jules Romains...
...Leaf, a Hand. They found something very comforting about Beebe. He looked like a prospector, a stooped, greying man in khaki shirt, riding breeches and high-laced boots. He was always calm, dignified and assured. He wanted no money. Unlike doctors, he recited no baffling mumbo jumbo, but merely looked at his visitors' left hands to see what was the matter with them. "You look at a leaf to tell what's wrong with a tree," he explained gravely. "I look at your hand." The visitors began to feel better already...
Catching hold of a three-two pitch in the last of the ninth, Arnie Closky, Crimson shortstop, bauged a double between Jumbo right and center fielders to chase home Jack Wallace from second with the winning run, breaking up a 1 to 1 tie Saturday at Soldiers Field...