Word: pivots
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...Holy Grail appears as the pivot of the play. It turns up in the dirty East Side nest of a gang of crooks. One crook steals it from another. Unfortunately for him the smarter swindler's girl who is deeply religious learns through her priest the identity of the vessel The conflict between them, falling slightly at a rather conventional climax, provides the drama...
...pivot of her mother's consciousness, driven a trifle off center by the disasters in the family, revolves about her daughter. Overpowering possessive selfishness sets her to keep Jane to herself. She forbids the match. When Jane stands her ground the mother bursts into a blind fury and pours into Jane's sensitive, overwrought brain the poison tale of her inheritance among the children of the still, white satellite. The girl's mind falters under the shock, and as the final curtain falls the audience hears the purr of airplane high in the foggy night in which...
...interesting of the demonstrations was that in which troop 9 of Boston put 12 men over a wooden wall 15 feet high in 35 seconds. In the fire making contest without matches, E. D. Davenport of Troop 4 won the championship, adjusting the bow and string and whirling the pivot until he obtained a spark to light the flame all in 43 seconds...
Captain Berry playing at the pivot position for Tech, will undoubtedly give Miller, center for the Crimson, the stiffest opposition so far this year. He has been chosen all-American center for two consecutive years and in the four games played this season has shown stellar jumping and fake passing. The Engineers have developed an attack in which Berry feeds the ball to the forwards cutting under the basket for a goal...
...start with little scoring through the greater part of the opening period, play being confined to fast floorwork and short passing. Most of the University's scoring during the half was done by a four man offence working the ball down the floor with Captain Gordon acting as pivot of the offence...