Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...danced to fast tunes, but with all the case and grace of a couple of cats. That's what makes Bill Robinson's dancing what it is: marvelous technique--so much that he can just relax and jump right along with the tune. It the jitterbugs will learn this trick in dancing just as the white bands have to learn it is playing, and will stay off the stand, and not kill too many gorphs, life will be much happier for all concerned...
...question. The Nazi majority in Lithuanian Memel were agitating last week for a "home in the Reich," but that was small change. More significant was the Nazis' tolerance in letting Hungary grab Carpatho-Ukraine. A smart stealing-casino player does not mind an opponent's getting a trick if he has the card that will steal his whole pile...
...other recesses called galleries and doors. Behind the receiver is another slot called a grille. Sloping down toward the court over these recesses and over the wall behind the receiver is a shedlike roof called a penthouse. The server serves the ball with a mighty cut, the deadliest trick being to make the ball backspin when it hits the penthouse roof and drop to the court "like a poached egg, limp, lifeless and with little bound." If this fails and a rally starts, the players may try to sink the ball in certain of the apertures for points...
...There must be no new, unique or trick methods for concealing of guns...
...French scientist named Maurice Piettre, when he arrived in the U. S. for a conference on food processing, told of new wrapping material then being tried in France for refrigerated meats. The material was latex-pure natural rubber altered just enough to be workable. The trick sounded good to Dewey and Almy Chemical Co. of Cambridge, Mass., which was already using latex to make low-cost balloons ($2.25) for high-altitude meteorological and cosmic ray observation. The company's researchers set to work devising a commercial method for wrapping poultry and meat in latex...