Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...single group during the first five miles, made their bid for victory. Six Pittsburgh runners forged ahead and were among the first fifteen men to finish. Syracuse, champion for two successive years, made the most of the last mile and a quarter, but was unable to turn the trick by seven points...
...newspapers. These pages were called the Red Magic Section and were advertised prior to their appearance as pages personally edited by Harry Houdini, President of the Society of American Magicians. Red this magic section was-red with ink. Magic this section was not, save as parlor tricks and picture puzzles are magical. One was not taught how to exorcise satanic presences, to stir a cauldron fraught with "eye of newt and tov.gue of toad," to draw a charmed circle or utilize the mystical phases of the moon. "Magic" was used in its popular, journalistic sense in naming the new section...
...there are as many as there are lectures. Excessive reading of books, high and dry prohibition, dancing, have all been set forth as the one sure method of saving the world from itself. The latest is by Mr. Glenn Frank, who thinks a sense of humor will do the trick...
...This trick should never have worked on the University, for Alfred Moo of the Lampoon had worked a similar stunt against the CRIMSON in the annual game between the two literary rivals two years before and everybody in Cambridge knew about...
...difficult to discuss the general policy of the Black and Orange in regard to strategy, for almost anything it tried worked. Its trick plays were a big advantage. They accounted for substantial gains and were seldom diagnosed by Harvard largely on account of the speed and precision with which they were executed. A Tiger back would turn, fake an exchange, turn again and plunge through a hole made vacant by the stratagem...