Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blaik, who at the time was preoccupied with some other business, replied in the affirmative without giving the matter much thought. It was in recalling this that the-third string back attempted to put his idea into practice...
With only a few minutes to play, Harvard had capitalized on two breaks to put the ball on the Dartmouth six-yard, line. At that time a third string quarterback was directing the team, and desperately searched through his fund of football lore to see how he could stage off the impending catastrophe. Then he remembered a quarterback's meeting in which he had posed the following question to Blaik...
...heroes of the occasion, however. Every time the men on the bench jump up to follow a play they move up three places from the bottom. By the time they are sitting beside the coach he is ready to send in what he thinks is the second-string back-field. Instead it is the Ritz Brothers who prevail on the captain not to accept substitutes by offering him a large bribe. After being penalized about 40 yards for their antics on the field one of them throws a long forward pass, catches it himself and runs for the winning touchdown...
...impresarios: his rangy, longtime arena director, Everett Colburn, and boyish Harry Knight, a onetime bronco-rider and son-in-law of Cowboy Tom Mix. A third, also in the parade, was an Arizona cattleman named Mark Clemens, who had put up the cash to buy Promoter Johnson's string of broncos, steers and wild cows, and to send "Gorilla" Mike Hastings scouring the West for more. Scout Hastings was visibly pleased last week with one of his most celebrated finds, a bucking horse named Hell's Angel. So vicious that in five years no one has ridden...
Concertmaster, that necessarily capable violinist who sits near the conductor, acts as his working assistant, is Mischa Mischakoff, onetime concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony, founder of a string quartet which for twelve years bore his name, owner of a $50,000 Stradivarius. The rest of the orchestra is well up to his high...