Word: balled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foot short of a touchdown. Except for another goal-line stand, this time when the Redskins needed four yards to score, the rest of the game, roughest and grimmest of the season, was Boston's all the way. Ankle-deep mud slowed down the Giants' best ball carrier, Alphonse ("Tuffy") Leemans...
...meat on the flesh of the woman I love while the sun was setting, I was finally able to attain images sufficiently lucid and appetizing for exhibition in New York." He was taken up by swank New York socialites and in his honor was held a fancy dress ball that is still the talk of the West Fifties. Mme Dali wore a dress of transparent red paper and a headdress made of boiled lobsters and a doll's head. Artist Dali wore a glass case on his chest containing a brassiere...
...Commander Rosendahl have peppered the pages of newspapers and aviation magazines. Dozens of expert committees have made reports agreeing with him. But until Germany's Hindenburg made its spectacularly successful flights last summer, Commander Rosendahl's pleadings bounced off the U. S. public like a topped golf ball off a frozen green...
...Chicago last week the directors and principal stockholders of Spiegel, May, Stern Co. Inc., mail-order house, sat down in a buff-paneled room a mile west of Comiskey Ball Park to approve three timely measures: 1) a five-for-one split in the company's common stock, creating 1,265,000 shares out of 253,000 now outstanding; 2) an extra dividend of $2 a share on the present common; 3) a change of their corporate name to Spiegel, Inc. Each in its own way, these three acts celebrated a remarkable feat of applied business science...
...real heirs of the Van Sweringen empire were the two septuagenarian Midwest industrialists who backed the brothers last year when they bought back control of their vast rail and real-estate properties at public auction in Manhattan (TIME, Oct. 7, 1935). These backers were George Alexander Ball, 74, Muncie (Ind.) fruit-jar tycoon and George Ashley Tomlinson, 70, Great Lakes ship operator. The two George A.'s together put up $3,121,000 to buy the key collateral pledged by the Van Sweringens for defaulted loans from a J. P. Morgan & Co. banking group, setting up a concern called...