Word: midgeter
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...high school facilities, all of the better caliber hockey playing takes place outside the high schools in amatour leagues, where subsidies for team equipment and ice practice time are more readily available. In Canada players from eight to 16 players participate on either Mosquito, Pee Wee, Bantam, or Midget teams. From this lower level of the hookey anarchy those players who are good enough to withstand the stiff competition graduate to the Juvenile ranks, in which they may remain until they reach...
Teams from Mosquito to Midget are sponsored by local concerns which desire to provide organized recreation and healthy competition for the youngsters of their area. The Juvenile and Junior teams are promoted and subsidized by various city athletic associations and rural civic organizations...
...four pages in color on the art festival at Spoleto, this issue features four salt-sprayed pages of pictures of the America's Cup challengers. The reporting assignment fell to Lansing Lamont, 32, of our Washington bureau (whose most recent sailing cup dates from the North Haven, Me., midget dinghy series of 1940). Covering Congress and Cape Canaveral and nuclear testing, Lamont is used to avalanches of garrulity, as well as fits of secrecy. But rarely has he had such trouble getting a story as in the waters off Newport. The cup racers and selection committee members...
...Looked on Forgotten Mindlessly judged fit For their own world The giant stands The midget stands They stand Next to themselves Under no pretense By their extremes Bordering unmistakably The proportions Of insignificance...
...each of them will drink it, smack his lips and go back to watching the game. You give 1,000 cans to one guy, and there is always the outside possibility that 50,000 people will talk about it." In St. Louis, Veeck enraged baseball purists by sending Midget (3 ft. 7 in.) Eddie Gaedel up to bat against the Detroit Tigers. League President Will Harridge instantly wrote midgets out of baseball-and that was all Veeck needed. At 5 ft. 6 in., he insisted, should Yankee Shortstop Phil Rizzuto be classed as "a short ballplayer or a tall midget...