Word: scouted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to his actual coaching duties, Maras is often used as a scout--his report on Colgate was a big factor in the Crimson's victory--or as a spotter from the pressbox, phoning information and advice to the bench during the course of the game. He rounds out his job with some movie narration, to undergraduate as well as alumni groups...
Professional Pride. Goodman took to drumming as a Boy Scout in Brooklyn (he thinks "Americans have special imagination and aptitude for drumming"). When he was in high school, he heard a concert by the Philharmonic, and was so fascinated by the timpani that he dashed backstage and asked to become the timpanist's pupil. Six years later his teacher retired, leaving 20-year-old Saul in charge of the percussion section...
...Social Service Committee, however, does not restrict itself solely to settlement house work. Programs have been set up in such places as the Youth Service Board Detention Home in Boston. Boston Psychopathic Hospital, Children's Aid Association. Boy Scout Groups, and inter-racial projects...
...recommendations assert "that it shall be considered unethical under any circumstances to scout any team, by any means whatsoever, except in regularly scheduled games. This prohibits "any attempt to scout practice sessions," and makes the coach directly responsible...
...wife & nine children at home in Perlis made no difference. Explained Riam: "We are Moslems, and the Raja is allowed by our religion to take four wives." Nor did it make any difference that the Raja's first wife, the progressively minded Tengku Budriah, should be a Girl Scout commissioner, a badminton, hockey and tennis player, who believes in the emancipation of Moslem women. Moslem custom demanded that she keep a dutiful silence while, 400 yards from her palace, workmen put the finishing touches on a cozy little green house to be occupied by the beautiful Riam...