Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Last week graduate students in the electrical engineering department at Britain's Birmingham University were putting finishing touches on a "detwinkler" to make the stars hold still. The detwinkler uses photoelectric cells to keep watch on the star image. When the image starts to wander, they signal a pair of electric motors which move the photographic plate back in line. As far as the plate is concerned, that star doesn't twinkle any more...
...most encouraging sing in the expected victory was the showing of the Harvard defense. In the final two periods, Dusty Burke combined very successfully with Duke Sedgwick as one defensive pair and Bill Bliss played with Jack Donelan as the other. The performance was further enhanced by the fact that the second Northeastern goal came as DiBlasio was residing in the penalty...
...hired a dozen plump ladies carrying baskets inscribed "We shop at Lipton's" to march up & down outside, drove a hefty, traffic-blocking pair of hogs marked "Lipton's Orphans" through the streets of Glasgow, scattered broadsides from a balloon, even issued authentic-looking pound notes as advertisements-and got in some minor trouble with the law. As Author Alec Waugh* delicately puts it in his readable but repetitious biography: "Lipton had no objection to being a public nuisance where his own interests were concerned...
Against BU, Harvard employed about half a dozen different defensive pairings using five defensemen--Carman, Bliss, Burke, Sedgwick, and Donelan. For the last two periods, defensive substitutions were usually made one man at a time apparently because Chase was searching for a pair of effective combinations. Toward the end of the game, however, he was using only Carman, Bliss, and Burke...
...only knows why the Kenmore billed "Mary of Scotland" as the feature in this present pair of revivals. It is a pretentious and ponderous movie while its partner is probably one of the best of the last ten years...