Word: balle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...game slowed up because of a muddy field Union's clever passing and accurate shooting kept the ball in Harvard territory most of the time, and scored almost at will. Harvard played aggressively but was unable to penetrate its rivals defense and Foster, the Union goalie, was credited with only three saves...
...Calhoun. Claiming the Earl of Mar as an ancestor, she built herself a medieval castle in Chevy Chase, called it "Rossdhu, Braemar Forest." She displays Bonnie Prince Charlie's sword in a glass case. She has Scotch evenings at which her Tennessee husband appears in kilts. At a ball last winter she personified "The Spirit of the Middle Ages...
...Aboard the U. S. S. Utah returning from South America, President Hoover was in- troduced to Bull-in-the-Ring as a form of exercise. Five or six members of his party formed a circle, with one man in the centre as "It." A heavy medicine ball was thrown around the circle until "It" could touch it. President Hoover has now imported this game into the rear grounds of the White House where at 7 a. m. in a large black sweater and grey flannel trousers he plays it with his friends for half an hour. Bulls-in-the-ring...
...times but it was always repulsed. The only score of the game came in the second quarter on a freak play. After a long exchange of punts, in which A. W. Huguley '31, kicking for Florida, had a decided edge on M. J. Finlayson '32, the Michigan booter, the ball was deep in Michigan territory. On an attempted kick, Finlayson spiraled the ball over his head and it fell back of the goal line, where it was recovered by one of his teammates, giving Florida a safety...
...Easters of today−in Rome, where the Pope washes the feet of twelve bishops; in Russia, where Christ is supposed to walk through the land disguised as a beggar; in the Philippines, where there are gorgeous parades and cockfights; in Chester and Suffolk (England), where they play ball and dance to music; on Fifth Avenue, Main Street and in Stubbs Corners, where new clothes, pleased smiles and excited conversation are the Easter ritual of people who do not go to church...