Word: stickfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comforting to think that in an age of radicalism Congress should stick by the old. The Senate can find no better precedents than the actions of the English parliaments of the seventeenth century. It is quite right in not proceeding too fast. The great American people must be educated slowly. They are not yet ready for such startling doctrines as the "infallibility of human testimony" and especially when it is backed by the Harvard Law School, no torious for its dangerously advanced views. "Slow but sure--sure to be slow" is an excellent motto for Congress just...
After putting his lacrosse men through an hour of stick-practice yesterday afternoon in spite of the discouraging drizzle, Coach Harry Herbert retired to the locker room and there proceeded to instruct his hearers in the history of lacrosse...
...Indians made their balls of hair and feathers, with a stone or wood knot to give weight, and the whole covered with a leather casing. They first padded the boards, and then substituted the net of leather thongs supported on a wooden frame, very similar to the present stick...
Coach Herbert is giving his men anchor of stiff workout every afternoon. Explanation of and drill in the fundamentals of passing and throwing with the lacrosse, for inexperienced men, occupied Coach Herbert's time yesterday. Practice at present is confined to stick-work and long runs for conditioning. The team will be entirely equipped with new sticks and headgear...
Early in the week after Harvard's last contest with the Blue, Hodder fractured a bone on his hand, while a few days later Chisholn banged his knee in a practice session with the New Haven Bears. The Crimson right wing had proved himself a baffing stick-handler, and Coach Winsor had to devise a radical shake-up to fill his place. Bodder has been practicing with the team for the last week, but he still lacks the strength in his aiming hand to make his shots at the same time fast and accurate. He is expected to see action...