Word: warmup
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...appreciating Artur Schnabel, the great pianist. But in London last week, even 66-year-old Pianist Schnabel himself was afraid that many were going to have trouble with Schnabel, the composer. His atonal First Symphony is so formidable that he thought London audiences and critics ought to get a warmup on it before its premiere. So he invited them to the final rehearsal...
...Bowl gridiron just before dusk. The squad looked balanced and high-spirited despite its shattering defeats of the past two weekends. Earlier in the afternoon on the same gridiron Harvard was cheerful and showed no signs of tension as the 38-man visiting team held its last warmup before the big game...
...part of the Pre-Princeton warmup yesterday, music and flares blossomed at Dillon Field House and steaks sizzled at the Varsity Club...
...hitting in the league (Outfielder Barney McCoskey is the only .300 hitter). What can't be measured statistically is their hustle, a lot of it contributed by Rookie Ferris Fain and Shortstop Eddie Joost. One day recently, Star Pitcher Marchildon was being pretty casual about his pre-game warmup. Shouted one of Connie's enthusiastic young men: "Look, if you don't want to pitch today, let somebody else do it!" Marchildon pitched...
...course, as in any team sport, that isn't the whole story; but situations may arise, as they did in the four-mile regatta with Yale, that the stroke must carry the shell when his mates are having trouble. In that particular back-breaker, too little pre-race warmup caused physical complications about half-way through among the men behind Cunningham, who practically bore the weight of the speeding shell by himself until they had regained their form. He did not feel the strain until the last mile when he tried to raise a spring...