Word: balled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many distinguished officers from Tid-worth barracks had, it appeared, ridden to hounds and played cricket with Captain Barker. "He ascribed his difficulty in throwing the ball to War wounds," said Dr. Farr of the Cricket Club last week, "I may have sometimes thought, mind you, that Barker was built 'all wrong.' He was. But there again, the poor feller was so terribly bashed in the War! Gad, I can't think of old Barker yet as a woman! The thing sticks and won't go down...
Quarter-final, semi-final, and final matches are to take place on the University Club courts. All other matches may be played where most convenient for contestants. The best three out of five games will mark the winner of all matches, and the new official ball will be used...
...first annual Military Ball will be held by the units of the University at the Copley-Plaza Hotel this evening, beginning promptly at 9:30 o'clock. Rear Admiral and Mrs. W. S. Sims will head the receiving line...
...attached by a system of levers to the type tray; and when the former is brought over a desired character on the indicator, the corresponding letter on the type tray is brought beneath a small receptacle open at the bottom, but covered at the top by a rubber ball. A lever is pressed, suction is created in the receptacle, the letter is raised from its place in the tray, brought into contact with the platen, and put back in its place...
...built, sensitive electric motors. Each motor had a rheostat, for speed variations. When a race was about to begin the rheostats were set so that each horse would travel at a speed proportionate to its "past performance record" (.0 to 1,000). Then a so-called Chance Machine distributed ball bearings so that ten added impulses were given haphazardly among the horses by a second series of electric motors. Thus any horse might suddenly frisk ahead, outdistancing rivals with a higher starting speed, only to "stumble'' in the middle of the race or "blow up" at the finish...