Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spirits Bill for Scotland. Before them came an expert on Scottish peculiarities who revealed that, by mixing milk with cheap Eau de Cologne, a potent potion can be made for next to nothing. Added the expert: "This drink is a common one in Scotland. . . . Four gallons would do the trick on a whole football crowd." The Scottish M. P.'s, blushing for the fair name of Scotch whiskey, indignantly recommended that all sales of Eau de Cologne be carefully checked...
...with a trick knee, Captain Powell will be unable to start today at his regular fullback position. In his stead Coach Jack Carr is sending Gerald Deakin, of the 1940 Freshmen, onto the field, flanked by Bill Goslin or Ted Robie, and with Bill Gray backing up in goal...
Northerners called it the Rebellion; Southerners, the War between the States. Historians refer to it as the Civil War. But what plain folks called it while it was going on, few Northerners or Southerners or historians can now tell convincingly. To roll back time 75 years is a trick only artists can perform. Evelyn Scott has had a good try. Last week Newshawk Royce Brier had another. A Pulitzer Prizeman (for his story of the Brooke Hart kidnappers, 1934). he went at his bigger story in first-rate newshawk fashion. 1937 readers of Boy in Blue may not get exactly...
Gambling done good-humoredly is a great thrill. The trick is to know when to stop and take it all with a grain of salt. And though the Casino has made Monte-Carlo's reputation, still there are other things even for a student on the vacation from Oxford. To wander in the mountains and see the flowers is alone worth the trip here. And then to have the natives tell you the story of every flower that the breath of a flower is it's perfume; and that you should eat the honey--for then you can taste...
...clay began to slide down at the rate of two feet an hour, faster than the power shovels could get it out. The contractors were faced with a delay of several weeks and an additional excavation cost of $200,000. The engineers decided to try an old trick invented in Prussia but never before used in U. S. dam construction: freezing the front of the slide. They ran six miles of pipe into the clay, pumped in brine cooled by two big refrigerating machines, bought secondhand. The clay froze solid; the slide stopped. Cost...