Word: winded
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...into the country by one of its many rivers. A guide they hired proved untrustworthy in the extreme, and after they were well into the interior, lured them away from the river by a series of gross misstatements, up into the barren country of snow and rock. Here the wind, which had been blowing continually, suddenly died down, and black flies, the terrible scourge of the country, settled on them. The reindeer which they had brought as pack animals, they left in a snow drift, while they themselves retreated to a little log cabin which had no opening except...
...adoption of such a rule would almost necessarily mean the abandonment of the present system of changing goals after each score, in favor of changing goals after each intermission, thus giving each side fifteen minutes of each period with the wind and fifteen minutes against the wind. Probably it would also be desirable that at the end of the two short intermissions play should not be resumed by a kick-off, but by a scrimmage, the possession of the ball, the down, and the distance to be gained to remain the same as before the intermission. Otherwise a series...