Word: stickful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ohio's Cantonese, Professor Allen did a miracle. He brought with him an instrument which consisted of an ebonite stick to which were fastened two slips of gold leaf. It was an electroscope. This electroscope he rubbed with a piece of cat's fur and slowly waved over the hospital's cinder heap. By and by the gold leaf dropped. Professor Allen immediately sifted the indicated cinders and with a forceps picked up the lost tube of radium. It had been thrown into the furnace with dirty bandages, as he had suspected...
...deft shot from the stick of R. F. G. Giddens ocC., reinstated Crimson hockey star, was the deciding factor in a closely fought game played at the Garden last night between Harvard and the University Club. The final goal which put the score at 4 to 3 in favor of the local skaters, was made with about two minutes of an overtime period to play...
Fast skating and a few examples of clever stick work were all that saved last night's encounter from being one of the season's dullest. The Cambridge coach, with Giddens back in harness, was obviously experimenting with his various forward line combinations, while the Boston team was handicapped by its lack of coordinated practice. The approaching tilts with the Yale sextet must still be regarded in the light of a rather mediocre record, despite the fact that many Crimson ice followers had hoped for a sudden reversal of form with the return of Giddens to the University lineup...
...Chop Stick, 353 Huntington Ave. --No cover charge-Cabaret 12.15, 7.15 and 11.15-Ray Stewartson and his Society Orchestra provide the music and features...
...that of its goalie. In any clash between two combinations with strong attacks, the guardian of the nets plays an all important role, not only defensively but offensively. Experts agree pretty generally on the fact that 50 per cent of the goalie's job should be done with his stick, and no small percentage of this work is in an attacking line. The puck should usually be caught on the pads and when it has dropped should be flipped to a waiting teammate. Such play speeds the attack and often sends it off a jump ahead of the opposing team...