Word: balled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nominee's four-mile route from the railroad station at Pittsburgh to Forbes Field, National League baseball park, wildly cheering crowds were lined so thick that a vanguard of 60 motorcycle policemen had frequently to push a way through the pack. When the Roosevelt procession reached the ball park, every one of its 45,000 seats was taken and some 30,000 other citizens were jammed on the field, in the aisles, outside the gates. Not since he appeared at Philadelphia last June to accept his nomination had newshawks heard anything like the roar which went...
...necks in debt. I can't interfere with Tony but what I couldn't do with that $50! I'm not interested in baseball but Tony's crazy about it. His one ambition is to have enough sons to make a ball team...
...open Pierce-Arrow, waved his tan felt hat. At the entrance to the Polo Grounds, the car crossed the sidewalk, went through a gate usually reserved for groundkeepers' trucks, rolled across the outfield, stopped at a box near the Giant dugout. The President threw out the first ball of the second World Series game, postponed 24 hr. on account of rain...
Another performance which fascinated the convention was Dr. Otto Barkan's operation for chronic glaucoma. In this disease the tiny drain called "canal of Schlemm" becomes clogged. It cannot carry away excess fluid which accumulates within the ball of the eye. Internal pressure eventually atrophies the optic nerve, causes blindness. The usual operation for glaucoma punctures the eyeball daintily, lets accumulated fluid escape. However, in many cases the hole soon seals itself, necessitating further operation. Dr. Barkan found that blockade of the canal of Schlemm is often due to grains of pigment which slip in from the iris...
Both in the scrimmage with the C eleven, which was using the Brown plays, and in the tussle with the Yardlings, Ford flashed his old ball-toting ability. The Varsity as a whole however, demonstrated that it still needs considerable work on fundamentals, and the coaching staff is administering this in large doses. Caused partly by the absence due to examinations, of Gaffney and Adlis, the line play was not up to standard, and this defect stood out particularly in the Freshman scrimmage. Healey, big Yardling tackle, was causing considerable havoc in the Varsity offense...