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...breast stroke contest. The diving will be judged on four required and four optional dives. The dormitory or fraternity whose entrants amass the largest number of points through placing in the various events will be awarded the meet. On each day there will be a 100-yard relay, four pick-up teams of four men on a side, with the winners slated to appear in the new pool on April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN SWIMMERS MEET TODAY IN BIG TREE POOL | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

Fumbles, extemporized plays, mixed signals never yet spoiled a pick-up game, since everyone is out for fun. The 49 Southern Conference players who turned out in Atlanta to help the Shrine children's hospitals, split up into Blues and Cardinals, but there were seven men from Tennessee on the Blues and they knew how to work together. Bobby Dodd's stout leg got off long punts and lank Buddy Hackman spun around ends, caught long passes. In the last period the Blue line softened, letting through Jones of Georgia Tech and Bethea of Florida-too late. North...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Jan. 13, 1930 | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

...University of Mexico's first game last fortnight against a pick-up team from the U. S. colony. Coach Root's swart quarterback cried signals in Spanish, drove the team through oldtime Yale formations, held the gringos to a scoreless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Breath of Autumn | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...passes over the catapult the hook engages the contraption's rope (held horizontally by the vertical arms) and pulls. That pull releases the spring, which instantly projects the container from the trough at a speed of about 45 miles per hour. Such speed prevents a destructive jerk at the pick-up plane. Shock is further reduced by absorbers within the plane. After the flyers have snaggled their package they draw it into the plane through a trap door in the bottom of the fuselage, by a winch which the propeller air stream operates. Archie W. Card and Henry Bushmeyer invented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Refueling | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

Among the various reputed attractions of a university town are its handsome editices and well-kept grounds. For the most part Harvard's buildings have been constructed with some attempt to please the eye, and the daily pick-up of all wayward cigarette stubs along the walks of the Yard would do justice to a royal lawn. But the care bestowed by the university on other parts of its property is very different...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A DECENT RESPECT | 5/14/1929 | See Source »

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