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Actual scrimmaging time was kept to a minimum as the team began to taper off on contact work. A dummy scrimmage took up the better part of the afternoon with emphasis on split-second timing and final details of the new system. A short but vicious assault on the tackling dumies finished ceremonies...
Fewer Voices, More Rooms. The boom in the hotel business had begun to taper off. Horwath & Horwath, accountants for the industry, reported that in the first half of 1948, the national occupancy rate was 88% of capacity, down from the 92% in the first six months...
...request) as soon as it could be done without upsetting the butcher's cart. That day never came. First, the embargo had to be kept to insure a full domestic supply while heavy shipments went to Britain. When it looked as though the British shipments would taper off, there was always some technical reason for keeping the embargo a little longer...
...jockey costume, he looks deceptively thin. Most of his 112 pounds are padded about muscular shoulders, which taper to a slim waist and toothpick legs. In the jockeys' room, where he is cock of the walk, he is by turns charming and churlish, chatty and mum (he likes to read between races ? usually bestselling novels). Sometimes, when another rider has done something in a race he doesn't like, his dander rises and he tosses equipment around the room. He can swear as proficiently as any jockey, but when the occasion calls he can speak perfect parlor English...
...seem namby-pamby but it is really a very scientific game," he wrote. He became very expert and once beat the champion "of a certain section of the United States." But in his last years at State, he had to give up the game. "My doctor required me to taper off, which probably proves that it is more strenuous than most people think...