Word: tilting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio than he would if he went out and bought the instrument for cash. Smart players can run up enough points to get more in merchandise than they put into the machine in coins. Some make the game a profession, carry their own bubble levels to gauge the tilt of each table. Others try to beat the house by marking the plunger with a pencil at the proper point to send the ball into a high score hole with every shot. The house mechanic spends much time removing marks from plungers...
Although permanently revived since 1927, the Club has this year for the first time been organized with regular practice sessions and a definite schedule of outside matches. The matches, which come intermittently from now until the Yale tilt on March 2, are mostly of the order called postal, wherein each side shoots separately and later compare their scores by mail...
Freshman' soccer is hitting a new high in popularity this year as the largest squad over out for the sport gives Coach Jim McDonald plenty of material from which to choose a team for the tilt with Tabor Saturday. About 80 Freshmen have turned out with the result that the present soccer playing space is rather inadequate. Another set of goal-posts are going to be put up on the field behind the Business School so that the trouble will be at least partially remedied...
...accordingly. Five contests have been put on the two-price basis. The top price of $2.20 for the Columbia, Penn, Brown, and Georgia games has been supplemented by a second rate of $1.10. Dartmouth, originally set at $3.30, also has the alternative of a half-price, while the Army tilt will command a flat...
...outward appearance a true Harvard man. Hoeing confesses to the heathen background of an Amherst A. B. (Cum Laude 1929). He smokes innumerable cigarettes, without removing them from his mouth; from this is derived, no doubt, in an attempt to escape the smoke, the tilt of his head and the squint of his eyes. Nights he is to be seen returning from Hazen's beer parlor, an aged grey slouch hat perched on his head, and the eternal butt in his mouth...