Word: rods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Disciples of Izaak Walton report that fishing in the muddy River Charles is no better this spring than it has been in years past, especially that sector which flows by the University. But the rod, worm, and fly boys are not utterly downcast, for Widener is close enough for all students. And Widener, strangely enough, has become a fisher's heaven, at least until a month from today...
...junior dean. He is at dutiful pains throughout his easy-going pages to give credit where due to the men who have made game fishing into a well-defined national sport. Examples: To oldtime Charley Thompson, credit for guiding the first party to take a sailfish on rod & reel, in 1901, after an 87-pounder had jumped into his boat and nearly speared a lady...
When a customer enters a telephone booth and closes the door, a switch located in the ceiling and connected to the door by a rod turns on the light. In some booths it starts a ventilating fan. Switches heretofore used for this purpose were mechanical ones which had moving parts to wear out and which made what Bell Telephone Laboratories considered a disagreeable noise...
...have even signified their attention of coming down mornings because of labs in the afternoon. Among them are Stave Brennan, huge weight man. Others are out for fall sports, including Rod Daughters, who is expected to be one of the foremost broad jumpers this winter and next spring and who will also take up the javelin, as well as Joe Johanson, a sprinter who is playing Soccer...
This demonstrates the principle of one possible way in which the descent may have been effected, the horizontal rod in this case projecting out from the vertical pole through the folds in the drape, and being disjoined and disposed of before the removal of the tent. But there are several other possible methods that the semi-secrecy of the tent would have permitted. In any event, Plunkett's assertion that "evidently we were not meant to see this part of the performance, or it would all have been done in the open" is incredibly...