Word: spinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Settling down to the first of five hard workouts before the crucial clash with Navy on the Severn this Saturday, the Varsity eight showed good from in a five-mile spin on the Charles yesterday. Rowing at a 24 and 26 count most of the way, the Bollesmen were put though several sprinting paces. There were no changes in the boatings...
Syracuse's husky boat which trailed in the Crimson wake on Saturday by a length and a quarter will take another spin on the Charles this weekend, but by this time the Bollesmen have the Orange stroke well measured and may easily beat them by a larger margin...
...game of oil must now be resumed in Mexico and, with such mulcted players as Standard Oil and Britain's Shell in a huff last week, there was a grand chance for Rickett & Smith to grab front seats at the Big Table before the wheel began to spin again. There ought to be bargains in Mexican oil today...
...table was surrounded by a crowd of gamblers, many of whom placed heavy stakes on the red, figuring that the chances against the black turning up one more time were billions to one. However, since what has occurred before can have no conceivable effect on any given spin of the wheel, the chances against the black turning up once more at any stage of the tun were exactly the same as at any other time-i.e., 19 to 18, or a little more than even.* The failure of the frantic red-players to realize this gave the house...
Vardis Fisher's candid, uneven, sometimes powerful tetralogy (In Tragic Life, Passions Spin the Plot, We Are Betrayed, No Villain Need Be) reminded critics of Rousseau, Zola, Dostoyevsky, Dreiser, D. H. Lawrence (but not, oddly enough, of Thomas Wolfe). This four-decker autobiographical chronicle told the tormented story of Vardis Fisher's fight to free himself from acute egomania and puritan repressions...