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Word: ball (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rain kept the ball teams inactive yesterday, but it didn't daunt the Glee Club, who warbled through their program on schedule at 7 o'clock last night in the shelter of the Widener roof, while most of the audience shivered and dripped in a driving rain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rain Cannot Stop Glee Club Widener Program; Just Drenches Audience | 5/11/1938 | See Source »

...many pictures from a photographer's files, the three judges assigned to the job picked an indubitable stunner, Joy Hawley. Too late they discovered that Miss Hawley's picture had slipped in by mistake, that she was a Northwestern girl, queen of that university's Navy Ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Chicago's Prettiest | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...scientific streamlining of the club head, the shape (except for the face of the club) conforming to airship hull contours tested in wind tunnels. Declared Dr. Crooker: "Dynamic and ballistic analyses, checked by field tests, prove the low-resistance [streamlined] club increases the free flight distance of the golf ball by 15 yards, which means a golfer like Jimmy Thomson using the streamlined club should attain a carry of 275 yards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Aerodynamic Golf | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...that on Friday made six errors against Pennsylvania, Coach Fred Mitchell reverted to his earlier combination of Ulysses Lupien at first, Dave Shean on second, Art Johns at short, and Dick Grondahl in the hot corner. Led by Johns who figured in eight put-outs, the infield played errorless ball with interspersed displays of brilliancy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crew Keeps Compton Cup at Nassau; Nine Bows 5-4 | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

Among the Commonwealth Fellows who starred for the Crimson were Angus McIntosh 2G, Richard S. Smith 1G, and Captain Patrick H. Nowell-Smith 1G. David C. Russell 1G and John E. G. Raymont 1G, two Crimson novices, played well. Raymont displayed ability in dribbling the ball with the stick reversed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Crushes Talented Vassar Aggregation 8-1 | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

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