Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dartmouth, and Princeton we have seen three varying degrees of success which the Harlow strategy can enjoy. Against Navy, the flaw in the team's scoring ability was most evident. When in midfield, with the Navy defenses necessarily spread out to guard against the Crimson pas threat, the mouse trap type of deception worked quite well. But once inside the twenty, when the Midshipmen secondary could accordion in a bit and the linemen could therefore risk being mousetrapped and charge in toward the center, the attack was stopped dead. In order to execute a mousetrap play, there must necessarily...
...abstractions to the tribesmen) and because he really wanted to marry her. In time, having won enough prestige to make his own law. he settled down happily with his "tawny Venus'' and raised a family. Nearly eight years later, when a Spanish vessel appeared, he engineered a trap to kill its crew. But in a sudden burst of homesickness for Spain he swam to the ship to identify himself. A few hours on board was enough. That night he slid over the side and struck out happily for shore...
...Bangor patrolmen and a squad of Indiana and Maine State troopers posted outside the store as soon as a member of the Brady gang came in. As Walsh moved to pull a cord which would, set a signal in the window, Dalhover realized that he had walked into a trap...
...better entice the fly. "Please," our tutor answered. Every month now he returns to the lair with the same three cards and receives the same benign reply. But the Beast has never sent him a card. Some thirty times our tutor has baited it, but the prey eludes the trap. Mournfully we suspect that somewhere in Widener even now there is a modified Jonah who has been prowling around the bowels of the Beast for three years, encouraged at the beginning of every month only by three cards, like those he got the month before. It is a sad tale...
...Piney Woods" was designed to stop Georgia chain-gang and prison-camp escapes, which have embarrassed Georgia's Governor Eureth Dickinson Rivers. Last week, the Governor of Georgia was embarrassed again. Six of "escape proof" Tattnalls first tenants coolly sawed through their bars, wriggled through a trap door. Three of the six then clambered over a barbed wire fence, scampered off into the pine woods...