Word: rods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Williams has apparently improved considerably since last year. The Ephmen had goalie trouble in 1951, but Coach Harvey Potter has now come up with Rod Starke, a sophomore who was an all-New England prop school goalie at Andover two years...
...Engineering Age, but it has become the Phenobarbital Age because of the national anxiety neurosis which has developed through lack of spiritual values in life and education . . . The fatalism with which people talk about the future of the Republic, the amount of time and money devoted to 'hot rod' pleasures, the level of current standards of sex relations, and the immoderate use of alcohol as an escape or as a crutch-these are the symptoms of the nation's deficit in nonmaterial things...
Students were alarmed when a shower of sparks erupted from the crucible's top, but Rochow calmly knocked the plug out of the bottom with a long rod and the molten steel flowed into a trough...
...probably the most fascinating section in this class deals with works on sadism and masochism in love, most particularly, the art of flagellation. One finds among the volumes discussing this subject "The Strap Returns: New Notes on Flagellation," "Presented in Leather," "A History of the Rod: Flagellation and Flagellants," and "Tender Bottom...
...Texas Sportsman Alfred C. Glassell Jr., the world's record for game fish on rod & reel, a 1,025-lb. black marlin boated on 39-thread line, off Cabo Blanco, Peru. (In 1930, near Tahiti, Zane Grey caught a giant striped marlin that weighed 1,040 lbs., but the record was disqualified because sharks had bitten off a chunk-about 300 lbs.-of the tail...