Word: swisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Headed by captain Swisher Digit the team went thru a long drill which included scooping scotch and sodas out of highball glasses. Commenting on this, Coach Waters explained, "the scotch being heavier than water strengthens the finger muscles, and the depth of the glasses forces the boys to get their scoop strokes lower, an essential fundamental for high scoring...
...Hickman Price, oldtime newsman (New York Sun, Nashville Democrat) who three years ago gave up a $50,000 per year job with Fox Film to apply modern industrial methods to husbandry in the Panhandle. Last year smart, efficient Mr. Price harvested 17,000 acres in Deaf Smith, Castro and Swisher counties. Last week he was getting in a 500,000-bu. crop from 23,000 acres. Next year he plans to expand to 30,000 acres. He believes that intensive cultivation and proper use of mechanical equipment should produce wheat...