Word: overhead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monday. Play was halted often during the informal tilt as the coaches attempted to catch all possible mistakes. Just what kind of plays were tried out is not known but it is probable that forward passing received a great deal of attention in order to perfect the promised overhead offense...
Last week as the warriors of the Tariff assembled in the Senate Chamber, above their heads came a sudden whir of wings. Looking up they beheld a pigeon gliding overhead. For a moment the ominous bird alighted above the battle on the edge of the Press Gallery. An eager correspondent snatched at it. The bird soared from his grasp leaving in his hand a single large tail feather. Settling on the architrave above a doorway, the ominous pigeon cooed and looked down the whole day long upon the high, industrial tariff army of Generalissimo Reed Smoot (Utah...
...Student Council keeps for its own overhead and running expenses $700; while the remainder of the $4,000 is for organized charities, and miscellaneous purposes. The Salvation Army is to receive $500, the American Red Cross, $1,000, and the Harvard Band, $750. The allotments for the Cambridge Boy Scouts, the Committee on Friendly Relations among Foreign Students, and the Near East Relief have not yet been decided...
...Detroit prohibition agents startled themselves by discovering an underwater cable along which liquor cargoes from Canada were towed on a sledge while Customs boats patroled overhead. The agents declared they thought a second cable existed. Detroiters with better imaginations wondered how many others there were...
Soon their chance came. Patrick Calhoun desired to modernize United Railroads' ramshackle Sutter Street car line, and to do so he decided to construct an overhead trolley system. Sugarman Spreckels, with an eye to a more beautiful San Francisco, objected. 'He called on Mayor Schmitz, proposed a modern underground conduit system, went so far as to offer to pay the extra expense himself. Mayor Schmitz laughed him out of the City Hall. Suspicious, Messrs. Older and Spreckels prevailed upon President Roosevelt to "lend" them famed Detective William John Burns and Lawyer Francis Joseph Heney, to conduct an investigation. They discovered...