Word: sparkplugs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chief Surgeon Raymond Jesup Garbutt of the S. P. C. A. demonstrated a new bloodless way which he has invented to retrieve canine inedibles. Thrusting a 36-in. forceps down the throat of a bull terrier, Dr. Garbutt removed successively an 8-oz. lead sinker, a wrist watch, a sparkplug, a pair of dice...
Vernon Struck, sparkplug of the Harvard five, was sick yesterday and absent from practice. It has not yet been decided whether he will be able to make the trip today...
Beaten by Army, Michigan, Dartmouth and Holy Cross, Harvard came back against a Yale team, which, in spite of its early promise, turned out to be merely a team against which other teams could make comebacks. Albie Booth, Yale's much-publicized sparkplug quarterback, was stopped in his little tracks every time he hit the line. Harvard could not gain with a running game either, but Barry Wood's punts were longer than Booth's and Captain Ben Ticknor made decisive tackles. Twice Wood dropped back and sent long flat passes to Huguley for the scores that...