Word: skate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mightiest of Fair structures will be the Hall of Science building. An enormous children's village will be built, as children themselves might build it, with such necessities as huge sand piles and a good place to roller-skate...
...year the approach of an important game found the squad without work for two weeks due to the lack of ice. Resourceful as Ulysses, the manager produced a dozen pairs of roller skates. Up to the flat top of the Stadium trudged the team, and donned their rollers. A pistol was fired, and the men darted off to skate skate the top of the horseshoe and back. Tire trouble, specifically the loss of the rubber covering of the skate wheels, caused the withdrawal of all the entrants but one. He finished and still holds the Stadium roller skating record...
...three 15-minute periods found the teams deadlocked at 1-1. An extra five-minute session was called, and then another, but the Blue defense held off the repeated assaults of the Crimson forwards, led by Captain George Owen '23, one of the greatest hockey players to don a skate in a Crimson uniform...
Tired after the long ride from Boston in one of the Canadian night-trains that stop at many junctions, on edge after the four hard games they had just played with only one day's rest between each game, the Rangers skated into the Montreal Forum feeling that it would be hard for them to get going. They were cut up and gashed-Johnson with the lobe of his nose torn through by a skate-point, Bun Cook with a charley-horse, Frank Boucher with a stitch over his eye. They were tired also from the strain of playing...
When U. S. citizens go to Canada it is usually for primitive reasons-to shoot or fish, to ski or skate, to eat, drink or make honeymoon. Secretary of State Kellogg had out his top hat and went to Canada last week. But his was a highly civilized reason. He went to pay back the ceremonious call which Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King paid the U. S. last autumn (TIME...