Word: forward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Material. Biggest quest: Rubber. Blocked in the Philippines by adverse land laws, Harvey Firestone is pushing forward with new plantations in Liberia; Henry Ford has six thousand square miles for rubber production in Brazil; the U. S. Rubber Co.'s plantations in Sumatra and Malaya have grown from 14,000 acres to 135,000 acres in 18 years of production...
Before the hockey season opened, officials of the National Hockey League passed rules designed to make a fast game a fast scoring game. They ruled that the forward pass, hitherto barred except in a team's own territory, should be allowed in all zones. Each pass, to be sure, must stay in one of the three zones in which every rink is divided by blue lines drawn 60 feet apart and forming a quadrilateral whose centre is also the centre of the rink. A player may not pass from one end of the rink to a teammate...
...center, with H. W. Bigelow '29 and E. C. Clark '27 teaming up at defense and H. H. Newell '29 at goal. Chandler Hilliard, former Arlington High star and Paul Curtis, who used to play hockey for Yale several years back, will team up with Chase on the forward line...
Coach Stubbs will start the same six men that were on the ice at the opening, whistle last Wednesday. Wood, Putnam, and Lakin will compose the forward line with Cunningham and Garrison at the pivot positions and Ellis...
Without descending to a technicality which would tax the understanding of more modern seafarers, Stanford nevertheless brings to the pages of his novel a real tang of the sea. His straightforward style, carries forward a tale spread over several years, without omitting anything but unessentials. Compactly, tersely worded, with excellent selection of detail, "Invitation to Danger" has not a single wasted chapter or paragraph...