Word: stratagem
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...Penn game last year, Harlow unveiled the double-shift, a little stratagem that caught the Quakers offside exactly 17 times. And Swede Anderson called it twice last weekend, although the reforce refused to call the penalty the second time because he didn't know what was going on. It's really quite simple...
...rose John J. ("Silent John") Bennett Jr., Attorney General of New York State, to make his first majrar political speech in the dingdong struggle over the Democratic nomination for the Governorship of New York. James Aloysius Farley had kept his man Bennett quiet and withdrawn from the battlefield. This stratagem had two advantages: 1) it kept Silent John from making any mistakes; 2) it left Big Jim free to smite hip & thigh the candidacy of Senator James M. Mead, the man of Franklin Roosevelt...
Aside from the new bond campaign, the Liberal Union plans to continue work on a series of pamphlets outlining American aims in the war. Those pamphlets are part of the enlarged Liberal stratagem to acquaint the University and the students with what they may fight for, and awake an attitude of "cooperation with the national effort" here...
...many turned out few the Alumni as were expected, so they were forced to use every stratagem in order to take the meet, and the first trick employed was to throw the Medley Relay...
...Fair Stratagem. Telephone Operator Borissova in "Town N" was said by the Russians to have plugged in a call from a stranger in a phone booth. The stranger asked the location of some "communication enterprises." She said: "One moment please; I'll look up the information." She called the militia, who went to the booth, found a Nazi parachutist...