Word: stickfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rees prepared for Princeton at St. Paul's School, where he was a leader in athletics and other school activities. He was playing center on the Princeton first-year sextet Saturday when he was struck above the temple by a hockey stick. The injury proved fatal, and he died during an operation yesterday morning...
...last few games Hodder has amply demonstrated his skill as a rapid-shifting stick handler, but his agility at outwitting the man in front of him has not infrequently served to divert his attention from the more important task of speeding toward the opponents' cage. In his new position the boards make it harder for him to dodge, and more necessary to skate fast...
...Vienna, Prof. Maximilian Langster, famed mesmerist, advertised that he would perform feats of hypnotism "hitherto unattempted." A "big crowd" marched to his theatre. There a policeman smilingly agreed to submit to Langster's eye. Having hypnotized him, the professor handed the policeman a stick, said: "This is a revolver. Shoot!" In a daze the policeman threw away the stick, seized his own revolver, shot three of the audience. He then leaped from the stage, attacked the spectators, seized several, herded them together, told them they were under arrest, drove them before him to the police station...
...situation of the Conservatives and the Liberals was obscure. Attempts at a modus vivendi agreement between the two parties were reported, but a substantially satisfactory arrangement was not made. The Conservatives with the largest number of seats in the House were inclined to stick by their protection policy, observing quite truthfully that the major part of the Imperial Conference work would be wasted if they failed to put protective tariffs into force. They also held that only by protection can unemployment be checked. The Liberals were diametrically opposed to this view from every angle. There was hope, nevertheless, that...
...defensive game. At one time the Crimson seemed in a fair way to break the shut out, when Beals penetrated and passed over to Hodder who stood waiting not more than three feet from the net. As soon as he received the puck however a Canadian player blocked his stick so that Morris was able to deflect the wild shot...