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...supernumeraries in this novel include a 300-year-old tree trunk which shatters transcontinental telephone connections, an owl whose electrocution weakens a wire, a boar whose drowning plugs a culvert and washes ballast from a canyon railroad track, a young telephone linesman, a power dispatcher, a highway superintendent for the Donner Pass section of U.S. 40, a junior meteorologist, a plane pilot, the flangers-and the dangerous steam rotaries which clear the railroad lines of snow, a dam superintendent, the men who handle the highway plows . . . men, beasts and things, in short, infinitesimally at work against the enormous collusions...
Midway into the second period, Culliton, chased into his own territory by a Leverett linesman, heaved a looping pass to Dick Eckert for the second tally. The rush through the line was smothered and Adams was 13 points to the good...
...uniform, and was sent into the fray. The Lowell score came soon after the start of the second half, when, after driving down the field from their own 25 to the Bunny 7, they were thrown back for a ten-yard loss by Bill Barnes, Rabbit linesman, and then held for downs. However, Leverett fumbled a few plays later, and then the Bellboy candidate for all-House honors. Felmouth again pounded down the sidelines...
...hearing and full of fight. Like many another Canadian, he turned to U. S. hockey for a living. A star forward, the scrappy little fellow made a name for himself as a rough-&-tumble player, who never minded how big they came. Some time ago National Hockey League Linesman McVeigh, fractious as ever, called a close one on the Detroit Red Wings. Up streaked burly Ebbie Goodfellow, Red Wings captain, to give the umpire a piece of his mind. Calmly eying the big man hovering over him, McVeigh waited until he paused for breath, then let him have one. "Listen...
Austen Lake of the American: "By virtue of my official position as linesman in the game, I'm prevented from predicting the winner, or commenting on the respective merits of the two teams...