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Word: balled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Possibility of a new pitching find loomed in Briggs Cage yesterday as Clarence M. Boston, Jr. '39, better known on the gridiron, demonstrated his speed and drop to Varsity coaches. Though he has experience in summertime ball, this was Boston's first formal appearance in a Harvard practice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHIEF BOSTON THROWS DROPS AND FAST BALL | 3/4/1937 | See Source »

...action. Nobody knows what the fate of any of these would be under the Constitution as now interpreted." The National Grange declined to take the hint and declared it had doubts of the wisdom of the President. The more politically powerful Farm Bureau Federation which has prospered by playing ball with the New Deal delayed its answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: The Big Debate | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

Northwestern's Charity Ball in Chicago judged, seven "queens" from seven big campuses (see cut). They gave the prize to the most patrician-looking girl of the lot-dark-haired, demure Joyce Kerr, 21, daughter of a drygoods merchant in Elmore, Minn. Queen Joyce is a junior at the University of Minnesota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Outside & Inside | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

...game of the liveliest week in the country's major intercollegiate winter sport. On the sidelines, Purdue's Coach Ward ("Piggy") Lambert, who puts a stick of chewing gum into his mouth whenever he is perturbed about his team, gnawed a wad the size of a golf ball. In their seats around the court, 5,500 wildly excited spectators watched the players go to their positions for the tip off. In the next few seconds, things happened almost too quickly for the crowd to follow. First, Purdue's forward, Johnny Sines, drove through the Minnesota defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Basketball: Season's Climax | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

Gradually the Crimson five increased the lead and then using superior reach, kept possession of the ball off the backboard and on the tip-offs. In the closing minutes of play Captain Miles dropped one from the side of the court, but Red Lowman stopped the attempted Blue rally with a looper from the middle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mermen Outrace Penn; Captain Gray Paces Crimson Quintet Beating Blue | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

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