Word: dependable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frick & Frack do not depend on costumes, grimaces or falls to get their laughs. With the pantomime of Charlie Chaplin and the rubber legs of Leon Errol, they take the elements of figure skating, distort them into crazy positions to create some of the most astonishing feats ever performed on skates. Frick's specialty: a cantilever Spread Eagle in which his body, bent backward from the knees, is almost horizontal with the ice. Frack's specialty: a rocking-chair Spread Eagle (gliding in circles in a sitting position...
Dewey has three equally good forward lines and a very promising goalie to depend on, but the defense is the one spot that gives cause for worry. Right now Dick Cutler and Caleb Loring are working at the blue line, but there is a possibility that some of the big forwards like George Gebelein or Chester Jenks might be tried out of this position...
What the good relaxed band does it just the opposite of the stiff band. They depend on the ear of the listener to hold the idea of a steady beat and then they begin go play behind it. This is the famous "colored lag," that which takes years to develop, and which most white bands never...
Funds are available in sufficient amount to grant 20 scholarships of $1000 each, but it is expected that the average award will be slightly less than this figure. The amount granted to each successful applicant will depend on his financial need...
Mohammedanism sets up one God, one Prophet; Hinduism worships a great pantheon of gods. Hindus worship images, and fill their temples with ikons, which offend Moslems deeply. Their mosques must depend on color, material, texture for their beauty, and all decoration is pure geometry. To the Moslem a pig is unclean, and by throwing in a slice of bacon, a Hindu can defile a whole mosque; but a Moslem eats and sacrifices cows, which are sacred to Hindus. Hinduism is passive ; Mohammedanism is proselytizing - which perhaps accounts for the fact that in most Moslem-Hindu clashes, Moslems usually seem...