Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...movie-fan magazines it scarcely transcended the unconscious absurdity of the fan magazines themselves. Plainly Publisher Delacorte did not want to be too rough with the industry which supports three of his publications?Film Fun, Screen Romances, Modern Screen?the last the second most successful (after Ballyhoo} of his string of fourteen. Some features of Hullabaloo's first issue...
...entrenched in the munitions field and from time to time since the War it has set the pace for the industry, continually improving its products. Its most notable recent accomplishment was Super X shells, with a slow-burning powder to give shotguns a more even explosion, a shorter shot-string. Super X was developed in the company's laboratories by President Olin's son John, a vice president...
...Upperville, Va., Reverend Everett Hinks was annoyed by neighbors' chickens eating the flowers in his garden. Chicken-owning neighbors of Mr. Hinks denied their fowl had committed the depredations. Mr. Hinks, ingenious, got many pieces of string, tied one end of each to a kernel of corn and the other end to a placard, left them in his flower garden. One day his astonished neighbors heard their chickens crowing lustily, found hanging from their beaks placards bearing the legend: "I Have Been in Reverend Hinks' Flower Garden...
...pervaded the football atmosphere in the New Hampshire hills. However the Big Green has only to exact a tie out of the Crimson today in order to leave themselves still in a 5 to 4 lead in the post-war series of the two colleges. On the whole string of games Harvard has won 18 as against its rival's seven, but until the resumption of football relations after the war the New Hampshire players had only vanquished the Cambridge men twice...
...Dartmouth a couple of weeks ago, their recent crushing victory over an undefeated Brown team gives them a higher rating than their erstwhile conquerors. Both the Crusaders and Elis are laying up for the best Harvard eleven that has been seen in years. Holy Cross will start its second string lineup against Duquesne this afternoon, although it has never played this college and knows less than nothing about its potentialities; yet Coach McEwan is taking no chance of harming any of his already slightly injured first-stringers...