Word: stem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Once you have the fundamentals you can go on to learn the high speed turns like the Christians. When you know the snow-plow, or double stem, and the snow-plow turn, and know them well, you can go on any trail in New England...
Dick Sullivan and Rick Rabenold were the starting Harvard forwards, but Coach Fesler sent in his ailing star, Charley Lutz, midway in the first half in an attempt to stem the tide. Lutz collected eight points while he was in the game and did not appear to be handicapped by his ankle injury. Captain Lupe Lupien and Fred Heckel were Crimson stalwarts at their guard positions, and Homer Peabody and Bill Humes shared center duties...
...familiar double role: half chief of the Democratic Party, half Chief Executive. As a partyman he flared angrily at Congressman Dies for embarrassing faithful Frank Murphy's re-election campaign in Michigan (see p. 8); sent a message to Minnesota to help Governor Elmer Benson (Farmer-Labor) stem the onslaught of Liberal Republican Harold Stassen (see p. 10), another to Pennsylvania to help George Earle toward the Senate, another to California to help Sheridan Downey; interviewed a series of political callers including dark-skinned Publisher Robert Lee Vann of the Pittsburgh Courier, supposed mentor of Pennsylvania's Negro...
Under its fancy dress, Drums turns out on close inspection to stem less from U. S. predecessors like Lives of a Bengal Lancer than a merger of early epics about the winning of the West, with the usurping Prince Ghul substituting for Sitting Bull and the Khyber Pass as stand-in for the Oregon Trail. Principal distinction between its plot and that of the early American version of the same theme is that, instead of a golden-haired heroine, the Prince (Raymond Massey) maltreats his brown-faced little Hindu nephew (Sabu). Busily organizing a gigantic revolt of all the border...
...Swiss authorities declared that an estimated 140 Jews per day had been "clandestinely" fleeing from Germany into Switzerland, announced that barbed wire is being strung along the frontier to stem this "Jewish flood." Jewish refugee camps in Switzerland were reported jampacked last week. The camp at Diepoldsau hoisted a banner reading: "THANKS TO THE SWISS PEOPLE...