Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notice about professional games is an immense, swift precision which makes the game compare to college games as college games compare to the higgledy-piggledy contests of gangling schoolboys. Professionals are almost always huge (an exception is Boston Braves' 167-lb. Center Tony Siano) but they do not lumber awkwardly like most huge college players. They must be light-footed, quick as eels, dextrous as jugglers. Professional line-play is clever, titanic and almost always evenly matched. Backfields use complex maneuvers which require split-second timing and the accuracy of basketballers in passing. Lateral passes develop from forwards, forwards...
Harvard men, undoubtedly aided by men who never saw the inside of a Harvard classroom, rallied in time to save one remaining upright at the steel-stand end of the field. The fight lasted for nearly as hour, with Harvard victorious in the lumber business if not in the pig skin industry that...
People who are accustomed to think of New York's Bishop William Thomas Manning as an extremely formal, frigidly aristocratic little prelate would have been amazed to behold him last Sunday morning. His pulpit was a footstool, set up amid shavings, lumber, scaffolding, tarpaulins, in a little Harlem church. His sermon was a fighting talk. His congregation of 250, pressing close upon him, was three-quarters Negro...
When definite news of the new light at Princeton reached Pasadena, hearts burned among the staff of California Institute of Technology. Caltech was built to be the greatest lamp of Science in the U. S. Lumber, oil and electricity provided the fuel. Biggest wicks are Robert Andrews Millikan (Nobel Laureate, physicist), Arthur Amos Noyes (chemist). Thomas Hunt Morgan (geneticist). Astronomer George Ellery Hale gleams on Mount Wilson nearby. The late Albert Abraham Michelson (Nobel Laureate, physicist) used to measure light's speed a few miles to the south. Other brilliant scientists frequent Caltech for work & consultation, among them Albert...
Woodman Spared, For many months a few disgruntled bondholders have sought to put Long-Bell Lumber Co., biggest in the world, into receivership (TIME, Feb. 1). In dismissing their petition last week Judge Merrill E. Otis of Kansas City praised the management of 81-year-old Lumberman Robert Alexander Long, found all his transactions aboveboard...