Word: tossing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead of a kickoff, in those days, the ball was fake-kicked. The center would touch it with his shoe, and toss it back to a teammate who ran while the rest of the team gave interference...
...invents a vacuum cleaner and ... a co-conspirator popularizes Venetian blinds, so there will be something else for the vacuum cleaner to do in a jiffy. A man turns out a simple little mechanism to make melon balls, and it's no longer comme il faut to toss a plain hunk of melon into a fruit salad ... In the period when beer came in kegs, the man of the house hauled it himself. Now that it comes in handy little cans, even a woman can lug a dozen from the delicatessen. The man who speeds by a woman, stopped...
Closed Coach Jerry Kanter 1B won a special coin-toss yesterday, so his squad will occupy the bench normally used by Harvard. The Closed scoring will appear on the scoreboard next the "Harvard" placard. Open will be the "Visitors," so Coach Dwight Hyde 1B will seat his men across the field. OPEN CLOSED Brown LE Herter Hartley LT M. Colline Glazier LG Vickery Knauss C R. Cohen Chase RG Segal Stone RT Townsend DeCoen RE Close Greeley QB Lown C. Collins LHB Greenburg Smith RHB Rhinelander Noble FB White...
Varsity and freshman cross country teams face Dartmouth today on the Green's home course. Both meets are considered a toss-up by acting coach Bill McCurdy...
...plain was seething with harvest activity. Though 1,283 ECA combines have been imported since 1948, most of the threshing is done by ancient methods. Oxen pull sleds, equipped with sharp flint points, around & around in the harvested wheat stocks, cutting them apart. Then the peasant and his family toss the grain into the air, allowing the wind, as it has for centuries, to separate wheat from chaff. (Sometimes there is the incongruity of a flint sled being pulled around by a bright, red, new, ECA tractor...