Word: spun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...basis of what has gone before is entirely unsafe. For we live in the age of geographical-graphical distribution of industry, all parts of the globe being interdependent for the commodities of life, as well as for science and the arts. Australia supplies the wool that is spun and woven in England; Canada grows the wheat that Belgium consumes; American architects are rebuilding France; while Vienna sends her greatest surgeon to practice in New York. The principle of every nation for-itself has gone; just as individual craftsmanship gave way to large-scale production, so the group of nations that...
Captains Horween and Callahan met in the center and Tiny Maxwell spun the coin. Princeton cheers were given for every man starting the game. Horween won the toss. Strubing, last year's Princeton quarterback, walked across to take the Princeton end of the lines. Sid Curtis has his customary job on the other jole...
...Virginia backs, Rinehart, a rangy, powerful specimen, was their best bet during the first half. He ran viciously with a high knee action that bowled over several tacklers before he was crushed. He rarely twisted or spun to evade the secondary defense. The effects of this bruising method of running evidently told on him as he became less effective as the game wore on. A compact little back of the type of Maulbetch of Michigan came to the fore in the later moments of the game. Zundell by name, he whisked through openings, usually in the right side...