Word: stickful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seaman, "in some mud the divers sent up from the Egypt's galley- cursed smelly mud!" Other "finds" washed by nose-holding sailors from the pantry mud: ¶ Brass disk stamped "P. & O." (the Egypt was a Peninsular & Orient liner). ¶ Rusty tube of a onetime shaving stick. ¶ Portion of an English Bible. "The rest of this Bible," conjectured the diver who sent the mud up, "had been gnawed away, probably by rats before the Egypt sank." Soon primed last week with wine, spaghetti and fresh bombs, Artiglio II resumed from Brest her quest...
...constructed for him on S.S. Olympic-TIME, Oct. 28, 1929) he has established himself as the most thoroughly publicized if not the ablest pugilist in history. By this time, everyone knows that he is 6 ft. 6½ in. tall; that his shoes are Size 20; that his walking stick on days when his managers expect him to be photographed, weighs 9 Ib.; that his neck is 20 in. around; that all other parts of his body, as is not usually the case with giants, are proportionately huge. For breakfast, when in training, Carnera eats two or three grapefruit...
...little later came Glenn Curtiss with his method of pushing the aileran controls from side to side with the shoulders as an "instinctive" means of banking, and his wheel for steering. Bleriot used the Deperdussin method of operating the ailerons with a wheel mounted atop the elevator stick. Out of these and many more experiments came the singlestick control as it is almost universally used today...
Under the direction of Coach Robert Pool, of St. Johns College, Annapolis, the University lacrosse team hold its first outdoor practice yesterday afternoon, in the field back of the baseball diamond. The practice was light, consisting chiefly of drill in the use of the stick...
Manager R. G. Saider '32 stated that the fall practice lasts for about four weeks. It aims to train the men in stick work and other fundamentals of the game, so that in the spring, when the heavy work begins, most of the time can be put on the perfecting of various plays. Lacrosse is an ideal game for the inexperienced man. Since it is not played in most preparatory schools, every man has the same chance of making the team. Freshmen and candidates for the University team practice together in the fall; practice games are arranged in which each...