Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Simultaneously with the defensive drill the varsity sent its own offense against another jayvee contingent and then against the freshmen. This session was devoted mainly to running; Jerry Blitz and Bob Ray drove hard against some stiff resistance and Bill Healey, the recently returned tailback, ran at full tilt, although e is still behind on his assignments. Jerry Kanter, who injured his hip bone during the Army game, was still unable to scrimmage and it new appears that his ailment may be more serious than was originally believed. If Kanter is not ready to play Saturday, his offensive left guard...
Steel production capacity was far greater than before World War II. In steel the needs were greater than capacity as long as the big auto and building booms ran full tilt, but cutbacks in the civilian use of steel were coming. Home appliances would also suffer, and especially television sets, which use plenty of electronic gear. There was more natural rubber than in 1942, and synthetic plants that were either in operation or could be within a few months, but a fuller mobilization might still bring a civilian tire shortage...
...Trunk. As a rule Trollope wrote his novels as lustily and naturally as he hunted a fox-plunging ahead full tilt, changing course where & when he or his quarry pleased, never knowing nor caring what insurmountable fence or un-jumpable ditch might pop up in the next chapter. Inspiration, he was always the first to insist, had nothing to do with it. He got up every morning at 5:30 and wrote with calm assurance until breakfast, after which he took up his duties as a hard-working civil servant in the Post Office. When he had written enough...
...wealthy young Parisian of republican sympathies and aristocratic tastes during a tour as a second lieutenant of lancers in the provincial city of Nancy. From one of Stendhal's many points of view, the book is a simple daguerreotype of provincial French society of the 18305. A tilt of his head and the author's all-but-invisible monocle glitters in mockery of that society. Another glance flickers derisively over the monarchists; the republicans are next, and so on to the army, the middle class, the official mentality...
...Collectors by Land. On trips through open country they were stopped by Arab bands, and forced to give a head tax. One time Felix almost gave his head, when a mounted Arab ran full tilt at him and "tore my cap off" with his lance. If it wasn't the Moslems it was their bats, which were reputed to bite off the noses of strangers and fly away with them. "Men who have long noses," Felix concluded soberly, "are in greater danger than others...