Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first quarter of the contest on Wednesday the Harvard stick-wielders held off the visitors, the period ending with the score tied at one-all. But with only on substitute to choose from, the Crimson men began to be worn down. The next frame saw Exeter tally three more goals while holding the home team scoreless...
...understand about the Old School Tie [TIME, May 7], but what the heck is a Rotary Club? Is it a policeman's stick, a society of egg beaters, or a group of soldiers waiting for a furlough...
...self-expatriot Gertrude Stein will stick to her non-average business of writing non-intelligible prose and let the American soldier do his above-average fighting in a serious American way, the war will be won in a quicker-than-average time so that we can go back to making better-than-average plumbing for more-comfortable-than-average American homes where no esoteric Stein is read. J. N. CARR Lieutenant, U.S.N.R. E. F. PETERSON Lieutenant (j.g.), U.S.N.R. % F.P.O. New York City
...subway which runs just below the street has caved in. ... The Tiergarten is burning; trees crack and writhe in flames. The Reichstag is smoking. . . . The new Imperial Chancellery, Hitler's Berlin residence, is also burning. The windows are blocked with heaps of books, and machine guns stick out between them. . . . Inside it is hot-fire is spreading nearer, floors are glowing with heat and about to collapse. . . . Across the street is the Air Ministry, the Ministry of Goring, protected by a thick stone wall. . . . The building is burning and we cannot enter it. The gigantic air-raid shelter...
Developed by Air Technical Service Command engineers and the Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co., the formation stick is now in use in all theaters. Pilots consider it one of the most helpful inventions...