Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard has not subdued the Big Green since a field goal and a touchdown did the trick for Captain Ben Ticknor's eleven in 1932, score 10-7. After a 7-7 tie in 1933, the Crimson have bowed respectively 10-0, 14-6, 26-7, and 20-2. Dartmouth, on the other hand, very carelessly dropped a 7-0 decision to Holy Cross early in the 1936 campaign but has managed to make up for this lapse fairly well, except of course for a few ties, two of which, Yale and Cornell, came last year...
Replying to charges in the local press that universities were "hotbeds of Communism" and that by implication, through his support of Loyalist Spain, he himself was a Communist, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, last night branded these statements as "the universal trick of all people trying to sway public opinion...
...Yorker. Permanent bulls have been Franklin Pierce ("F. P. A.") Adams and the New York Times'?, amazingly broadly informed Sportswriter John Kieran. Paul de Kruif, Stuart Chase, Marc Connelly, John Gunther, Alice Duer Miller have been among the weekly panel of guests. Matador Fadiman's banderillas are trick questions selected from some 60.000 sent in every week by listeners (reversing the usual procedure of experts questioning audience...
...which avoided one hurricane and ran smack into its undetected twin. Having thus ingeniously outwitted the meteorologists, he challenges Conrad with a tale that for excitement (and, at times, for skill) matches Typhoon. The Archimedes, a trim, 9,000-ton oil-burning freighter, westbound from New York, hits the trick hurricane two days out of Colon. This is on Thursday. By Sunday, when the hurricane abates, the Archimedes is a shambles and the crew has gone through an experience calculated to turn even Conrad's seamen green around the gills. A hurricane begins when wind velocity reaches 75 miles...
That same year, in Minneapolis, a golf-zealous grain broker named Herman Berg forbade his frecklefaced 13-year-old daughter Patty to play any more football (she was halfback on a boys' team) gave her four of his old golf clubs; taught her many a trick of the game before she outgrew her middy blouses...