Word: freakishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Gledhill beat him 6-4, 6-1, 6-1 in the semi-finals next day, McGrath's victory over Vines proved definitely that he is not a freakish flash-in-the-pan. but the rarest thing in tennis-an utterly unorthodox player who is also a superlatively good one. Unable to give eye-witness reports of McGrath or to publish adequate photographs of him, U. S. tennis writers had to rely on descriptions by U. S. players who had seen him in action. Said Wilmer Allison: "McGrath will go right to the top with that funny backhand...
...first newspaper publicity when, in a Dallas store "One look at its trim beauty and you know it has class." two years ago, she hoisted a 50-lb. weight over head. A physical freak in her ability to co-ordinate her actions with her eye, Miss Didrikson is not freakish in appearance. Now 19, she weighs 126 lb., has slim hard wrists and ankles, long spatulate hands. No one person is greatly responsible for her proficiency in heterogeneous sports. Her manager and coach, Melvin J. McCombs, is director of athletics for Dallas Employers' Casualty Co. Her father. Ole Didrikson...
There can be little objection to the Dramatic Club's staging undergraduate work as a supplement to its productions of recognized authors. Plays by students would probably be not unusually lower in quality than the third rate or freakish productions that have failed to meet the requirements of the professional stage. The stimulating effect on prospective play-wrights in the College would more than offset the possibly inferior quality of the amateur work...
Also why is it most midgets seem to be continental Europeans by birth? Are both my generalizations wrong? And my further observation is that freakish giants also tend to have squeaky voices; that small fully matured normal men frequently have deep bass voices...
Quarterback Ralph Hewitt ran 90 yards for a touchdown and kicked a 52-yard field-goal, but Columbia's nice double-wing attack and the way they ploughed the Cornell line kept their victory from looking freakish. Columbia 10, Cornell...