Word: trickyness
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The Crimson ends were playing wide against these runs, and often managed to turn them inside. But the Princeton tailbacks, Hugh "the Great" Scott and John "Silky" Sullivan, usually managed to get six to ten yards into the Crimson secondary before being brought down. They were both fast and tricky...
Offensively, it was a rather strange game for the varsity. Its "bread and butter" plays--the power plays over tackle and the "dives" into the middle of the opposing line--brought very little yardage; and time and again in crucial situations all seemed to depend on the ability of quarterback...
The blame for such tricky practices does not all lie on retailers. Everybody is a little at fault. Says Chicago B.B.B. Vice President Aubra Johnston: "The customer wants to think he drove a hard bargain. The retailer helps him kid himself. And the retailer and the manufacturer get together to...
Shining through the week's war of words about Quemoy was the sharp military fact that the fighting was going well for the Chinese Nationalists. U.S.-supported, U.S.-trained and U.S.-equipped, the Nationalists racked up dazzling jet victories, all but solved Quemoy's tricky sea-air supply...
But fluorine, most tricky of the halogen series (others: iodine, bromine), is a nightmare to handle and hideously corrosive. To stay liquid, it must be kept at - 306° F., and if it merely touches water it will start a 5,000° F. explosion. Now Bell says it has...