Word: balled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Harry H. Ball, WPA director in Delaware County, complained that a road foreman was unfit for his job, Democratic County Chairman Anthony P. Barrett wrote to him explaining the rule by which he picked all WPA foremen. The rule: "A good Party worker makes an excellent public servant." "It is amazing to me," roared Harry Hopkins, denying the charges in full, "that the Republican National Committee will permit Joe Grundy's henchmen in Pennsylvania to peddle their phoney affidavits and second-hand gossip. . . ." Sample Hopkins' refutation: In Delaware County, where Harry H. Ball implied that only Democrats...
...gold are to be met by the purchase and sale of gold between the New York Federal Reserve Bank, the Bank of France and the Bank of England. The price of gold for this system is set on a day-to-day basis, the U. S. starting the ball rolling with gold at $35 per oz., less a tiny handling charge. No longer is the U. S. Treasury licensing private traders to export gold on their...
Although the Crimson team were able to march for repeated first downs, and were almost continually on the offensive, they lacked the punch to put the ball over the last marker. Three times during the first half the ball was advanced within the Providence 20 yard line, once resting 3 yards from a score where the Jayvees were held for downs...
During the third quarter, it was anybody's game. Long gains by both teams were frequent, but almost always terminated in a fumble. One 30 yard romp by a Providence back resulted in Harvard capturing the ball when a last minute lateral failed. Encouraged by this break, the Crimson rallied for a first down, capitalized on a 15 yard penalty for several more gains, and then lost the ball in their turn by a fumble...
This brand of ball continued into the fourth period, with Harvard continually keeping the advantage. Five minutes before the closing whistle, Traff Hicks attempted a field goal from his 30 yard line, and missed the uprights by just a few feet. From then on, the scrimmage moved around the field with the rapidity of a soccer ball, the secondary of both teams making their longest gains on intercepted passes...