Word: working
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...varsity football team omitted its usual Wednesday contact work yesterday as it went through offensive and defensive drills in preparation for the Yale game Saturday...
Coach Art Valpey explained after practice though he felt a scrimmage was needed to sharpen the squad's timing, the team's physical conditions had prevented contact work...
Contrary to the usual Tuesday procedure, there was no contact work what ever. "We can't afford to get humped up now" explained Art Valpey. Although Dike Hyde and Hal Moffic will probably be ready, the status of Chief Bender, John Coan, and Jim Kenary is still doubtful...
Further along, someone was saying what a fine group this freshman class was, theoretically anyway. "More potential athletes and newspaper editors," added the gentleman, by way of example. In another corner: "The secret is to work not hard, but intelligently. Find the intellectual speed at which you work the most efficiently, and stay there...Find your pace...Remember everyone can't be top dog around here...
...soaring bat flapping about the stage. Be it understood that there is nothing wrong in that. If a playwright can arrange to have unknown hands reach out from doors, a Big Ben-like clock strike off-stage at tense moments, and blood trickle over door sills,--if he can work all of these (and more, as in this case) into his script without causing his audience to titter at the overlarding, then hooray...