Word: plungers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...backfield, the play of Craig, Schwenk, Wilson, and Long has featured in every game, Craig and Wilson sharing triple-threat honors equally. Schwenk has shown marked improvement as a line plunger, and Long is very dangerous on sweeps and passes...
Jimmy Munroe, leader of the Lowell band which made noisy appearances all over Cambridge and vicinity Tuesday, has enough trouble in managing his toilet-plunger baton without having dissension in the ranks of his followers...
...take the fun out of this form of gambling, U. S. manufacturers have been busy taking the gambling out of this form of fun. In the last three years they have made 5? bagatelle a national craze, filled the land with glass enclosed, pin-studded playing fields for plunger-driven, hovering little balls. At last week's convention the term "slot machine" was banned.* Taking their cue from the degrees of interest shown by the public in their exhibits, the coin machine manufacturers last week foresaw the passing of Bagatelle, increasing popularity for new bowling (Skee-ball), ray shooting...
...systems. Coach Waldorf's chief distinction among U. S. coaches is that his lack of system is the most systematic of all. It consists simply in inventing plays to suit his players instead of choosing players who can execute his plays. This year, Northwestern lacks a crack line plunger and good pass-receiving ends. Consequently, the Northwestern attack is built around plays designed to shake running backs clear on off-tackle thrusts, supplemented by short passes to receiving backs. Like many other coaches this year, Northwestern's Waldorf capitalizes "mousetrap" plays-allowing an opposing lineman a clear path...
...have been so long or so profitably interested in shaving as Colonel Jacob Schick. It was he who first applied the principle of the repeating rifle to the design of safety razors, inventing in 1921 the Schick magazine razor with a plunger for discarding and inserting blades. Eight years later he perfected the power-driven shave. The Schick Dry Shaver, an electric gadget selling for $15 which mows down whiskers without cream or lather, has found its way into 500,000 U. S. homes. Fortnight ago Colonel Schick came unbloodied through the first round of the year's biggest...