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...Snappy accuracy and not weak pushes must feature this department of play. The center's job is to feed his wings, who in turn must be free to take the pass and apply the death thrust. Throughout the nine games played so far, too, the use of the poke check by the forwards has not been as efficient as it might. The first game of the 1929 Yale series, which the Crimson won by a 2 to 1 count, showed the victors employing this check not only as a defensive but also as an offensive weapon and the result...
...Politically speaking, the Orient is like a jelly-poke one part of it and it all shakes," acknowledged Observer Lodge. But, he suggested, Europe might be benefited if a colonial safety valve were permitted to a certain country with well-known colonizing experience. In short, perhaps it would be wise to sell the Philippines to Germany...
Except for the first period in which the Crimson capitalized on the errors of the Terrier goalie to poke its four goals in the net the game was slow and uninteresting. Both teams played ragged on the offense during the last two periods and only an occasional milling about the net made the last 40 minutes exciting...
Display. In the afternoon and all the next day the University showed off. Induction evening there was a huge banquet at the Palmer House. The students had no classes Induction Day, but the faculty were at their posts. Visitors were taken through classrooms, laboratories, clinics; were allowed to poke into the University press, oldest (1892) U. S. college printshop; saw Police-Professor August Vollmer's sphygmanometer (lie detector) in the Social Science Building (TIME, May 27). In the Haskell Museum, housing the Oriental Institute's work, upon which much Chicago money is lavished, was exhibited the archaeological reseasch of Professor...
...drafted a letter to Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams. He offered to buy the Olympia from the Government, proposed to recondition her and anchor her in the Potomac near Washington, where hordes of sightseers could poke fun at her outdated guns or gravely consider the footprints on her bridge, outlined in brass tacks, where Admiral (then Commodore) Dewey stood when he said: "You may fire when ready, Gridley...