Word: sparks
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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This time Harvard hopes that Loren MacKinney will provide the spark to upset a favored Princeton eleven. He continued to occupy the blocking role while the team put in final practice licks for Saturday's game. Extra points and punting received a lot of attention yesterday, and the session was topped off with some concentrated work on the bags...
...Rubber which conducts electricity sounds like an anomaly-but such a rubber would be an advantage for airplane and truck tires, for rubber hospital floors. Reason: conducting rubber would continuously discharge static electricity, prevent it from accumulating to the point of spark peril. Static sparks in hospitals have been known to cause anesthetics to explode. In The Rubber Age, Engineer Howard E. Elden of Dunlop Tire & Rubber Corp...
...dyed-in-the-wool musical fan will miss the spark that dirty jokes strike so wonderfully. For sex is at an absolute minimum in this edition. That and Ethel Merman are all it needs to concede to a $4.40 a seat show like "Panama Hattie...
After that Worcester clung tenaciously to its slim lead and effectively throttled what few Freshman threats there were before they had time to materialize. For most of the game the Yardlings looked on the verge of going places, but the spark which they lacked against Exeter was still missing, and only once did Chief Boaton's eleven look like an effective team...
...System owes much of its precision and detail to onetime (World War I) Draft Administrator Hugh S. Johnson (who is not bashful about taking due credit in his daily column). Its present spark plug is tawny-haired, blue-eyed Lieut. Colonel Lewis Elaine Hershey. A descendant of antimilitarist Mennonites who migrated to Pennsylvania in 1709, Lieut. Colonel Hershey has specialized on Army conscription plans since 1926. His technical superior on the Joint Army and Navy Selective Service Committee is the Navy's Lieut. Commander Benjamin Stacey Killmaster. But the Navy has little need of conscripts, will leave...