Word: patly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rolls because it is a coordinated machine with a beautifully balanced running and passing attack. "They are the most intelligent group of men I've ever coached," says Coach Carl Snavely of his team. "I give them seven new plays . . . yet the following day they have them down pat." But every football fan knows it takes more than intelligence to win 13 games...
...first time that Adams got the ball in their game with Dunster, Pat Culliton ran seventy yards off tackle for a touchdown and the only score of the game. Although the Gold Coasters threatened three times more, the stubborn Dunster defense stifled all scoring threats, and the Dunster offense bogged down when deep in Adams territory...
...great deposits of antimony, manganese, mercury, tungsten, fluor spar, molybdenum. But big producers have never worked them, have concentrated on gold, silver, zinc, copper. The other metals have been left to the Indians, who grub them out of the ground, trot down to the market centres with a pat of tungsten, a tin of mercury whenever they need money for tortillas or pulque. The sales to Japan helped prime small native industry...
...RECENTLY BOGGED DOWN: CYRUS MCCORMICK, JOHN J. RASKOB, PAT HURLEY, GEORGIA O'KEEFFE, MARGARET SULLAVAN, DIXIE DAVIS, BETTY RIGGS...
Chief looseners are a trio of sailors impersonated by Rags Ragland, Pat Harrington & Frankie Hyers-the last two on leave from Manhattan's locally famed "18 Club," where for some years they have assisted Comedian Jack White in making that institution a sort of petit palais of honky-tonk humor and personal insult. Mr. Porter has worked with funny men before (Victor Moore, Jimmy Durante, Bert Lahr). But never with any so fundamentally low-down funny as these. In Panama Hattie one of them observes to his pal Ragland: "You make more cheap dolls than they do in Japan...