Word: mats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...declaiming like a choragus; at the next he may be slanging to beat Broadway. Even the backdrops are out of sorts with one another and with the story. In one scene Frontierswoman Crawford, dressed to the nines in a Paris gown, sits down to a grand piano in a mat-red grotto lit by candelabra, and plunks .away like a cowtown Liberace while the posse thunders toward a sort of sagebrush Götterdämmerung...
Since then the South has become a land of promise. States are spending taxpayers' money to attract Northern capital. The welcome mat is out and the hand of friendship extended-but not by Senator Johnston." Then the paper took unkind notice of Johnston's New and Fair Deal tendencies and his loud support of Adlai Stevenson. Said the editorial: "There was another term of abuse in Reconstruction. It was 'scalawag,' meaning a Southerner who played along with Washington policies then oppressing the South." -Still, Olin Johnston had his way in the end. In Geneva, still unconfirmed...
...unbeaten Yardling team meets an unimpressive Yardling team meets an unimpressive M.I.T. freshman squad an hour and a half earlier on the I.A.B. mat...
...varsity wrestling team rebounded from Princeton's 20 to 8 shellacking on Saturday with a 19 to 9 win over Pennsylvania yesterday afternoon on the losers' mat. By defeating Penn the Crimson grapplers ended their four-meet losing streak...
...horizontal bar, brought ohs from the crowd as he twirled around the bar like a human propeller. Quickly, Stattin reversed his hands and direction, crossed his hands on the bar, did several handstands, and capped his performance with a double backward somersault which dropped him to the mat with a sure-footed slap. In all, Stattin won four firsts (horizontal bar, parallel bars, long horse and rings), a second in calisthenics, and a fifth in side horse (where the Illini scored a 1-2-3 sweep...