Word: sparkly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...however, one of the best practices in point of view of drive and spark that has been seen all season. The A and B teams were driving through the C team in a protracted scrimmage with a ruthless abandon that left the subs gasping for air and pawing in the dark. The scrimmage was all from the 20-yard line, and no adding machine was present to keep the list of the scores...
Outplayed the greater part of the game, Eliot managed to push over a touchdown late in the second quarter to de-fur the Rabbits 7-0. "Slugger" White, spark-plug of the Elephant attack, went over for the score on a 30-yard slash off tackle...
Yesterday's practice began at rather a sluggish tempo, comparatively speaking. Not that anyone was actually loafing, just that that certain spark which makes all the difference between a winning and losing ball club was missing. It might have been due to an early season let down, or the warm weather might have been to blame, but whatever the cause, the first dozen plays that team A ran against the third eleven in scrimmage failed to net ten yards...
...Wells is a spark plug. That he has had only a loose connection with the rest of the machine that makes the world's wheels go round is perhaps a pity, perhaps a good thing. If he had fitted perfectly into his social socket the sparks he has emitted for 40 years might well have been neither so noticeable nor so illuminating. On the other hand, Britain's cylinder might have sputtered a little less had Author Wells been firmly pressed into the national service. Pity or not, at 70* H. G. Wells remains what he has always...
...Department of Commerce corroborating Eckener's reasoning that atmospheric electricity (otherwise known as St. Elmo's fire or "brush discharge") accumulated on the ship must have ignited leaking hydrogen. Weighed and rejected by the investigating committee were theories of sabotage, broken propeller, ignition by radio spark, structural failure, lightning...