Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second period started out slowly, but the Mooneymen soon found the range and also limited the visiting Crimson to seven field goals and two fouls. The home aggregation ran its lead from 40 to 32 to 55 to 34 with Lutz the only man able to count. Legg and Ruml sank free throws to end the game...
Sink-&-Float. If a handful of bird shot mixed with sawdust is thrown into a pail of water, the shot will sink, the sawdust float. Reason: the specific gravity of water is greater than wood's, less than lead's. The flotation method of separating ores from waste, using liquids of higher specific gravity than water, has been used for nearly a century. For over three decades E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. has been trying to devise an economical flotation method for separating impurities such as shale and slate from low-grade anthracite coal. For "parting...
Continuing its winning ways the fencing team decisively defeated the St. John's swordsmen Saturday, the score being 17-10. After losing the foils 5-4 with Cranston Jones taking two of his three matches to lead the Harvard foil-men, decisive victories were scored in both epee and saber...
Mischo was an offensive demon, being fed continually by his mates, but Crimson stalwarts Lutz and Heckel came close to matching his dazzling efforts. Sporting a 20 to 16 half-time lead the Quakers were not threatened until the final two minute. But then they had to stall frantically as the Crimson closed the gap to only 38 to 35 just before the gun barked...
...Finnerty, Callahan, and Fox out-pulling Art Bosworth, Jack Waldron, and Him Curwen--Harvard's best medley relay combination. Bossie, supposed to be home with a cold, gained a body-length over Finnerty, but Captain Callahan did has breastroke 100 in around 1:04 to pile up a huge lead over Waldron, another sick-list swimmer. Curwen was faced with the prospect of overcoming a deficit of almost one lap in the free-style leg, but Coach Ulen signaled him to ease up. The time, 3:04.8, was excellent for the Columbia pool...