Word: secondly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High scorer Warren Winslow, who sank the rubber 10 times this season, usually sparks the Crimson attack at the center position on the first line. A good stick-handler and passer, Winslow has been surprisingly subtle in evading opposing defensemen and in setting up plays. Main sparkplug of the second forward trio, Stacy Hulse, is second highest scorer, with nine tallies to his credit...
When Phoneman Moore married Schoolteacher Mabel B. T. Clark (his second wife) six months ago, her first task was to unravel the mysteries of a front-hall panel studded with 28 pushbuttons, representing the overflow of her husband's mechanical talents and his preoccupation with the front door. Push one button and the door opens long enough to admit one visitor, then slams shut. Push it twice and a party of six can slip in without getting nipped. For crowds, a second button holds the door open indefinitely. For salesmen, truculent folk and enemies, a special button flips...
...less unorthodox is Phoneman Moore's midsummer method of taking a swim before breakfast. Stepping onto a balcony outside his second-floor bedroom window, he presses a button. From a swimming pool in the yard a model airplane climbs to him on cables. Sitting on a trapeze slung from the undercarriage, he presses another button, the plane heads for the pool. Mr. Moore lets go in time to flop into the water. On the journey back he just hangs on until the plane deposits him on the balcony again...
...Americans of this second westward trek are still fighting the desert, the mountains, hunger, thirst, death. Tame Indians stand and wonder at them. The Indians these modern pioneers fight are California deputies who resent the invasion of their State as much as earlier red men resented earlier whites. These are in a better position to show resentment...
...story he might as well call it fiction because that it will largely be. As such it may nevertheless be an illuminating piece of historical literature, as are Robert Graves's two stories of a Roman emperor (I, Claudius and Claudius, the God). Or it may reach the second-rate level of a plausible, readable and honest tale like The Star-Gazer, which is a freely fictional novel of the life of Galileo...