Word: balled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...here. Back in 1897, they put up the one we've been using down here, when they gave up playing on Jarvis and Holmes Fields." Dennis reminisced. "Those were fine fields, up where the Law School is now; and they used to have some fine ball games on Holmes. When we couldn't get in we used to climb up in the willow trees and see the game fine...
...teams crowded around the first tee as their rival captains prepared to drive. Suddenly a premeditated bedlam broke loose. Ladies hooted, screamed, blew tin whistles, danced, threw clubs in air, did their utmost to superinduce inaccuracy among the opposition. Nothing save outright mayhem was barred. The match (two-ball) continued, team members shooting in rotation, regardless of allotted implements. The bedlam continued with increasing fury; no lady was spared. The ninth green found the contestants so exhausted that the match was then terminated by common consent. Adding machines clicked. It was found that the team captained by Mrs. Clarence Bradley...
They had not cheated. They had played with bow and arrow instead of club and ball. Standing on tees they had shot arrows toward greens. Walking to where the arrows had landed, they had shot again. Regulation archery targets had been set up on the greens, substitutes for ice-filled cups. A bull's-eye had meant a "dropped" putt. A shot anywhere on the target had meant that the next putt would be automatically conceded...
...with these Frenchmen; he would liberate Corsica from their obnoxious yoke. Three times he tried and failed. Humiliated, ousted from his native land, he went to Paris to watch the French revolution. One day, he was given the opportunity to put into action his simple theory: "that a cannon ball, if it strikes a man, will kill him."? This theory dispersed a mob, saved the Directory, brought Napoleon a wife?Josephine, the mistress of one of the Directors. This theory was the reason that Napoleon was at the foot of the Alps with his ragged army. In less than...
...Since our arrival in America we have been more active on the ball room floor than on the squash courts," said Captain Victor Cazalet of the English squash team in an interview with a Crimson reporter yesterday afternoon...