Word: rods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pound affairs, featuring Joe, Kozol and Bob Abboud, should be fairly even fights; King's opponent, Abe Allen, lost by one point to Dan Ray last year; Chuck Olentine, who will face Harvard's Rod Skinner at 155, bowed to Don Louria for two years but was never pinned; Stan Thompson, at 165, will be rated over Dean Mulder; Claflin will take on Philo Lange, former Exeter wrestling captain and an All-American lacrosse player...
Harvard will try to buck the competition with the team of Graham Taylor, Laurie Griffin, Gerry Gonn, Rod Nordblom, Gordy Abbott, Tim Wise, John Hart, and Skiddy Lund. The competition includes downhill, slalom, cross-country, and jumping, held tomorrow and Saturday...
When these academic offences are sufficiently serious, the headmaster intervenes and flogs the culprit. He does this with a birch rod [and] the procedure is attended by time-honoured ceremony and ritual...
...flogged one from rising to defend himself from the headmaster's assault. The school messenger now opens the door of the sixth form room, and the headmaster rustles in in his robes of office. A third prepositor goes to a cupboard, from which he takes the birch rod and ceremoniously hands it to the headmaster. The headmaster approaches the kneeling boy and, holding the handle of the birch with both hands, smites the bare behind of the boy six times. He then hands the birch back to the prepositor and rustles out of the room again. No word...
...product that is kin to the naphthalene in mothballs). The disc gives off flashes of light when atomic particles shoot through it. Dr. Collins does nothing so crude as to watch the flashes of light with his eye and a microscope. He pipes the light through a Lucite rod into a photomultiplier tube that can count as many as 100,000 flashes a second...