Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...visiting team, while representative of a comparatively small institution, has compiled a good record against all sorts of opposition and should stand an excellent chance of upsetting the Crimson today. The 1928 Rhode Island outfit turned the trick last spring when they bunched their safeties off Whitmore to win by a 4 to 3 count. Their lineup today includes five veterans of that team. Either Scott or Acroyd who have been doing most of the hurling for the invaders all season. Will be on the mound this afternoon...
Fortnight ago ex-King Amanullah grunted and sweated on a Kandahar platform doing a cloak & box trick to show his people that he was worthy to be their King (TIME, May 27). News from India last week indicated how vain were Amanullah's grunts. Frightened by reports of what Bacha Sakao, the usurping bandit-King, was doing to rebels-firing them from cannon, killing them on the streets- Amanullah's followers continued to desert him in a steady stream. Last week, accompanied by his "beautiful" wife, Queen Thuraya, and his prodigiously fat Brother Inayatullah and his wife...
Packing a dingy theatre by putting up the sign FOR MEN ONLY or FOR WOMEN ONLY is an old trick. Last week a new change was rung when the Mayor of Santiago signed a decree authorizing the expenditure of public money to build a theatre FOR CHILDREN ONLY...
...private army in the world (see p. 30), and that the strong militarist clique in Canton had definitely sided against the Nationalist Government. How Canton was brought suddenly to heel last week by President Chiang will not soon be known with certainty; but quite possibly huge bribes turned the trick, as they often do in China, for it is known that the Treasury was abruptly tapped by the President for $5,000,000 cash...
...cannon. One day six years ago Ugo crawled into the gun's muzzle. The brother "fired" it, a blast of compressed air plus a puff of gunpowder smoke to make it realistic. Ugo hurtled out and landed, unhurt, in a haystack. Now they have perfected the trick. The "gunner" brother takes care of the mechanism, guards it jealously. At each performance Ugo climbs into the barrel. Much depends on his brother's aim, but not all. Ugo has found that by beating his arms he can retard his speed and by shooting out his legs he can increase...