Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were a few days earlier in the spring when chances for a respectable showing on the trip seemed very good. But injuries have come thick and fast and all have hit the midfield...
Lacrosse midfields are like hockey forward lines. They change about every three minutes and a team needs at least two and should have three strong ones. Munro now has two average midfields and a weak third. For the spring trip Jim Telfer, alternately first and second-string left-hander last year, is questionable because of a knee injury. Albie Wells, a sophomore who had made this year's first string, and Tim Anderson, who had made first center, will also be missing...
...clearinghouse for information on every improvement of the microscope and telescope. To provide the Royal Navy with, timber, it put up prizes for the planting of trees, was eventually credited with having inspired the planting of 50 million. It was the guiding spirit behind Captain Bligh's famous trip on the Bounty, gave him a gold medal for his report on the care of breadfruit trees. It inspired a horseless carriage (its fuel: gunpowder) the design of the first really practical lifeboat. Under the presidency of Prince Albert, consort to Queen Victoria, it set up London's first...
Fast Learner. Namatjira's rise started when two Melbourne artists, Rex Battarbee and John Gardner, came to the bush on a painting trip and showed some of their watercolors to the Hermannsburg aborigines. Albert was fascinated. He brooded about the white man's wondrous colors, and eventually made a proposition: he would serve Battarbee as camel boy if Battarbee would teach him to paint. Battarbee agreed, supplied Albert with brushes and paints, and gave him a few pointers on color. Two weeks later, as Battarbee recalls, "Albert brought along a painting ... I immediately saw his talent. Here...
Good Tucker. Last week Painter Namatjira was back in his simple wooden house in Hermannsburg after his first trip to eastern Australia. Albert made the 1,200-mile journey to Canberra in response to a gold-crested invitation to meet his sovereign. Queen Elizabeth II. After being presented to the Queen, he attended a lavish state ball where the tables groaned with caviar and pheasant. Commented Albert, who still eats honey ants at home: "Good tucker...