Word: offhands
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...team backfield has been comprised for the last three days of Cliff Wilson, Austic Harding, Frank Foley, and Ralph Pope. Offhand it appears as though this would be the quartet that would start Saturday. In fact, it appears like a good two-to-one wager...
Shrewdly timed to coincide with Larry Kelley's sudden reappearance in the public eye were two articles in the Satevepost by Larry Kelley, "with" Sportswriter George Trevor, Yale '15. They were written in the offhand style affected by famed athletes in the Satevepost, were full of such autobiographical data as: "I was a shy, sensitive boy. . . . Mother wouldn't let me try for the team until I filled...
...Offhand it seems impossible for a Sophomore to break into the starting backfield, even such an all-around athlete as Torbert McDonald who did most of the ball-lugging last year. There is, however, the possibility that cliff Wilson will be shifted from a bucking back with Chief Boston to a line post, and in that case there will be an opening for someone to spell Boston...
...What other cars might claim to be in the same category as the Phantom III? Only five that I can recall offhand: the latest Hispano-Suiza, Horch, Mercédès-Benz, Packard, and the huge 'golden' type Bugatti...
Occasionally the opposite happened as when a science editor tried to out argue someone who was explaining a paper that he had spent a good part of his life studying. Often offhand remarks by reporters would enliven the sessions. Thus when one interpreter was discussing a paper in the symposium on "Factors Determining Human Behavior," one reporter compared a child's actions under certain circumstances to a cat who'd been fed a hot oyster at which he'd pawed in anger after the bivalve had burnt him. "Do you feed your cat hot oysters asked someone. "Why yes," answered...