Word: sticks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laying pullets are sold to other farmers who do nothing but produce eggs for the table in a completely automatic fashion. The hens are kept in individual cages. They stick their heads out to feed from a continuously filled feed trough, turn around to a drinking fountain, drop their eggs on the inclined wire floor. The eggs roll outside through an automatic counter onto a conveyor belt that takes them to a human sorter who puts them in boxes. Another conveyor belt takes away the droppings. One man can easily take care of 7,000 birds with an output...
...Elis were generally more subject to poke-checks than the Crimson, as they skated and stick-handled less forcefully. Three of four times, though, they were presented with breakaways when the defense failed on checks...
...third period the varsity wasn't in trouble until an elbow-check penalty to Anderson at 14:24. A Yale slap shot from 15 feet went through a tangle of players in front of the goal but luckily found Pratt's stick instead of an opening. With only four seconds remaining in the same penalty, defenseman Mike Graney broke alone out of his own zone, but his shot was stopped by Jones...
...script calls for desperate measures. John D. Hancock, who directed, has taken them, but they are the wrong ones. In his efforts to stir up laughter, he has employed books, scrolls, wineskins, spectacles, a rolling pin, a gavel, quill pens, a pitcher, drinking glasses, an earring, a pogo stick, and a live rabbit, among other things. If the rabbit could have been induced to misbehave on cue, I have no doubt but that this would also have been added to the pleasures of the occasion. The cast performs with commendable energy, which might better have been spend doing pushups...
...serious shortage of young string players, is handing out a minimum of 50 scholarships a year for instrumental students. Local 802 is particularly concerned with New York City's still relatively lusty night life, is spending $75,000 to kindle dancing feet and wind up aging swizzle-stick tappers...