Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crimson mound staff, on the other hand, has far from lived up to pre-season expectations. Ed Ingalls, for two years the mainstay of the Mitchell string, has yet to make a starting appearance on the slab. In addition to his old complaint, a trick knee, the veteran righthander has been bothered by a sore...
...Viewed from every angle today's purchasing power-the citizen's income of today-is not sufficient to drive the economic system at higher speed." Thus the program itself was founded on the old pump-priming theory with five billions in cash and credit to do the trick. By various bits of legal and financial legerdemain the net cost to the taxpayer was described hopefully as a mere billion and a half. According to the President this would provide him with the "three rounds" of ammunition needed to down Depression...
Whenever U. S. citizens are asked to contribute to the Red Cross by whoever at the time happens to be U. S. President, the prestige of his great office has usually been enough to turn the trick. U. S. citizens have responded to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's appeal that they give the Red Cross $1,000,000 for the succor of the Chinese people by contributing to date some...
...cherished pageantry stuff. Amazed, McCoy could only insist that "it has to be there. It's like candles and Christmas." What went over big, besides the imposing grand entry, was straight action: cowboys with lariats climaxed by McCoy himself roping eight horses with one loop; Cossack trick riding, the U. S. Cavalry "monkey drill," a blind jumping horse...
...together lovingly. The undergraduate, in desperation, looked around for help. At that moment up stepped no less a personage than William Yandell Elliot, professor of Government, and adviser to President Roosevelt. Scanning the situation with a keen, academic perspicacity, Professor Elliot concluded that only one measure would do the trick--manual labor...