Word: ball
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smith was going to do now. Annoyed, Mr. Smith said that he had no announcement to make, that he did not desire daily visits from the press, that he hoped he would not be asked to confirm such rumors as the possibility of his accepting a position as a ball player with the New York Giants. When he had news to give, he said he would give it. He then posted one Officeboy Cohen* to guard against intruders. Later in the week there was "news" in the Prudence Building; there were photographs of Mr. Smith's smiling face still...
Cricket is liked by almost every British citizen, no matter where he lives. It is played with a ball harder than a baseball, with big flat bats, with eleven men on a side, two batters (one at each wicket), a bowler, a wicketkeeper, and an interval of tiffin. The professional members of a team eat in a part of the clubhouse separate from the amateurs' and their names are printed without "Mr." in the lineups...
...influence on the game at Harvard and on the men who play it. For the three years during which his system has been operative, there has been built up a tradition of hard football that counts the game as more than the winning of it, and a carrying the ball always against the other team as the best way to play the game. It is a worthy tradition, whose worth needs no testimony, and the assurance of its extension for at least another year is encouraging...
...tactics that it maintained for a great part of the game. Harvard's attack broke through this defense several times to score, ringing up a total of 22 points by the end of the first period, while the Middlebury outfit having little difficulty in scoring, once it got the ball, shot a total of 21. Throughout the game, Harvard's play was characterized by a strong driving attack, and a weak, unorganized defense...
...First of Germany and one of Catherine the Great of Russia. The note of the former is amusing in its content, asking that special provision may be made by the addressee to allow the writer's sister and aunt who are under quarantine for scarlet fever to attend a ball...