Word: rods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first camera was an aluminum-cased affair which was taken to the bottom by iron ballast attached to a block of rock salt. An extending "trigger" rod stopped the camera at the correct height above the bottom for proper focus, and in doing so automatically set off a flash bulb and snapped the shutter. When the salt dissolved, the camera was freed from the ballast and bobbed to the surface...
Coach Henry Lamar is wary of over-confidence about tomorrow's encounter, for the Eagle team is a complete mystery, and Coach Moody Sarno may well be pointing his men for this, their first engagement of the season. Lamar has reported that Rod Perkins, just released from sick bay, will be able to play on a limited scale, although he will not start...
Watching the fray from the sidelines were halfbacks Glenn Schultz, brilliant Freshman from St. Louis, benched with an injured foot, and Marvin "Bill" Jenkins, who is temporarily ineligible. Their combined absence necessitated Garrity's shift to the wingback position. Still in sick bay was right end Rod Perkins, whose shoes were well filled another veteran of last year's team, was a draw, as each man averaged approximately 38 yards per kick...
...With Rod Perkins still in sick bay, Freshman Walt Coulson will hold down the end position once more in tomorrow's contest. Coulson is slated for action in the punting department, as well as for further exhibitions of his pass-snaring ability. Scrappy Wally Mroz will be in the lineup again after a week...
...waited in vain for the Government to implement his famed social security report. Last week, his patience exhausted, he forsook Oxford to take his plan to Parliament himself. He will stand as a Liberal, is virtually assured of election under the wartime party truce. Soon he will have another rod in pickle for the Government: his new Plan for Full Employment in a Free Society...