Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seventeen men who can be be selected as first string this year, Harvard loses nine as against five graduated from last year's squad. The four Senior forwards, Captain Freddy Moseley of the first line, and Dewey, Hovenanian and Hallowell, alone possess as much attacking power as most any of the teams faced this year. The three defense men, Jim Roberts, Dick Claflin, and Thorny Brown, could have substituted for any in the league. And the two goalies, Ash Emerson and Bob Waldinger, are worthy of any varsity. Leo Ecker, whose severe leg fracture is apparently healing well, will join...
Then Stubbs put in the first string and they scored in ten seconds on a speedy rush past the tired Tigers at 16:37. The fans started the suicide call only to be cut off short as Freddy Lawson and Savage combined to beat Emerson at 16:47, just after Louis Carr was given a 2-minute sentence...
Baroque, Ltd., swank London wholesalers, made a daring move by so timing their show of women's fashions that as the Bachelor King reached their display a seven-piece orchestra struck up Bach's Air For G-String, and a troupe of mannequins advanced in the formation known professionally as a "Pink Wedding Ensemble...
...sale at a specified price, for which he can be claimed by anyone who wants him. In these his efforts had been so undistinguished that Mr. Baroni got him for the modest sum of $3,500. He took the horse to California with the rest of his string. Top Row promptly began to win races. A small, unimpressive, 4-year-old bay colt, he returned to the East last summer to run against horses far out of the claiming class. Partly because Top Row's earlier achievements had been so limited, partly because his owner was emphatically outside that...
...Eliot's string of victories may be attributed to a well balanced team, to point-pickers Cann, a diver, and Dodge, a breast-stroker, and to relayers Leonard, Cann, Welles, and Dodge...