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Word: sticking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Featured by the brilliant stick-handling and accurate shooting of Eliot Farley, the final meet of the evening saw Dunster walk over Eliot 9 to 1 in a very one-sided game. Farley scored five of Dunster's nine goals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINTHROP, DORMITORY TIE IN HOUSE HOCKEY | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

...Jack be nimble, Jack be quick; Jack jump over this here stick!" shouted the drunken father, who had sold the family Furniture to buy liquor. While mother and sister wept to see such sport, the tearful little sprout jumped over a broom handle, again & again until he fell exhausted. The scene shifted-years had passed. The son, arriving home drunk from a football game, forced his aging father to jump over a stick. "Have mercy on my grey hairs," begged the old man. "You didn't have any mercy on my black ones," said the boy. "Jump again." Father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bishop v. Drink | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...complete outfit, from black velvet dress to handbag, swagger stick and costume jewelry, made of synthetic fabrics or plastics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Marvels | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Communist ideology. Harvard's Student Union should not allow its growth to be hundred either from within or without. At the National Convention of the American Student Union after Christmas, relations with Russia will again develop into a storm-center. Already a hundred New York chapters have decided to stick by the Party Line. But on a national vote dissension will break out through the Student Union. If the Party Line still holds after the smoke has cleared, no choice remains for Harvard but to cut its strings with the parent organization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STOP, LOOK, AND LISTEN | 12/12/1939 | See Source »

...second series of matches, Lowell made up for its defeat by Winthrop last Monday, soundly beating Kirkland 4 to 1. Although Charlie Griffith and Fred Benedix fought hard, they and their teammates were no match for a smoothly working Lowell squad, whose line was held firm by the able stick handling of Norm Blotner and Ed Doering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINTHROP, DORMITORIES LEAD IN HOUSE HOCKEY | 12/12/1939 | See Source »

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