Word: shotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Huskies will send out an all-senior forward group of center Inga Walsh, the captain, Charles Diehl and Tom Blair. All three have been playing varsity ball for Northeastern for two years. Walsh is the big man. The six-foot-four former Milton High School athlete has a layup shot just as crisp as his crew haircut, and he handles the ball with considerable adroitness. Creedon and Landini, both sophomores, are the guards...
Jaakke Mikkela's versity track team got a shot in the arm last week when hurdler Pat McCormick (Shown above in action last spring) exchanged his basketball shoes for a pair or spikes. The former Ohio state interscholastic hurdling champion had been working out will Bill Barclay's basketball team but has now decided he can make more progress down in Briggs Cage...
...Positive Benefit. "Do not expend much powder and shot on Mr. Butler," Charles Darwin advised one of his supporters, "for he is really not worthy of it. His work is merely ephemeral." But Butler, who hated Darwin's evolutionary theory of "natural selection" as much as he hated the Established Church, expressed his own views early in his career by denouncing, in four large volumes, the idea that man "survived or perished according to a process of 'natural selection' into which neither God's will nor man's nor any being's appeared...
Diversion. In North Plainfield, N.J., Joseph Vitelli explained to doctors that he had shot himself in the stomach to take his mind off a toothache...
...nine months he galloped horses as an exercise boy, practicing with short stirrups and short holds. Last New Year's Day, at New Orleans' Fair Grounds, he rode his first race. Twelve days later he rode his second race and first winner-aboard a $52.10 long shot. From then on, he was the talk of the track wherever he went (Lincoln Downs, Narragansett Park,Suffolk Downs, Jamaica...