Word: trickier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trickier to get on and off than an old-fashioned boiled shirt, hemmed in by a landscape as disheveled as a Congressman's collar, the trapped and trammeled Washington-Hoover Airport has since 1926 been a fliers' nightmare. Landing or taking off in the big multi-motored planes that for the last decade have carried most of the U. S. air commerce, pilots have had to duck and dodge three 800-foot radio towers, a clump of tall brick factory chimneys, a snaking Potomac lagoon, a blimp hangar, the U. S. Experimental Farm and, until a month...
Harvard's kicking averaged five yards better per punt, its line was almost invincible, its backs hit the line harder, were trickier in the open, but it simply failed to win. Coach Gar Davidson admitted that he won on the breaks though he conditioned his statement by saying that Army was able to capitalize on them. But on two main breaks, Army was really able to capitalize on only...
...minor compared to some he has heard of since : an old farmer in Georgia who tricked experts and promoters into paying $150,000 for worthless gravel; the celebrated Mulatos salting by which an exhausted mine was sold for $1,575,000. Baragwanath's friend Joslin met a still trickier game. Inspecting a claim near Porcupine, Canada, Joslin reported that it was salted, took no samples of the rock into which the gold had obviously been pounded. Another company took such tests despite the clumsy attempt at fraud, discovered the samples averaged $25 a ton, paid cash for the claim...