Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...autumn day in 1807 Henry Shreve finished building a keelboat and, after hiring a crew of ten Frenchmen and half-breeds, shoved off into the muddy Monongahela, bound for St. Louis. He was 22, had long been fascinated by the gay river traffic. "It seems," wrote his Quaker father, "as if people are crazy to get afloat on the Ohio...
...village teeming with overland adventurers (coureurs des bois), boatmen (voyageurs), townsmen (habitants). "There were spruce military men from the American garrison which had been placed over the village when it passed from French rule four years ago. ... To a Quaker it was strange for a town to boast a dozen billiard rooms and only one small church. . . . Most astonishing to Shreve were the warehouses where he had to select his furs. . . . Pelts were stacked high on every side . . . and heaped in hills about the floor, hung from rafters and bulging from the adjoining sheds...
...Quaker flicks, which were run off in slow motion, revealed a host of points about the game which couldn't be seen even with 20/20 eyes from up in the overheated, overcrowded press box at Philly...
...first place the movies made it plainly evident that the Quaker flat pass early in the game, which that afternoon seemed to be all but glued in the waiting hands of Jack Morgan, Harvard's right end, before it bobbled out--actually was far out of his reach...
Morgan made a great stab at the ball and deflected it so that the Quaker end couldn't get to it, but the films plainly show that the national scholarship boy from Covina, California hadn't a Chinaman's chance of intercepting it. He had been seriously critized immediately after the game for missing the break that might have gotten the Crimson off to an early lead. If he had been able to get his hands on the pigskin it would have been a sure score as the remaining twenty-five yards or so to the goal was as bare...