Word: balled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Tilden. . . ." While professional tennists were starting their tenth season in Manhattan last week, the most famed woman amateur player in the world. Helen Wills Moody, was starting something else in San Fran cisco. She and Instructor Howard Kinsey set out to see how often they could bat the ball to each other without missing. Aiming at 5,000 times, they rallied steadily for 1 hr. 18 min., stopped at 2,001 (a record) because Instructor Kinsey had to give a lesson...
...three-time champion at 18.1 balkline billiards, current cushion caroms champion, in a challenge match against loud & confident Welker Cochran, to whom he was runner-up in the tournament at Chicago last November (TIME, Dec. 2): the world's championship at three-cushion billiards (in which the cue ball must hit at least three cushions before touching the second object ball), a title for which he has campaigned diligently since 1927: 360-to-246, in 340 innings; in Chicago...
Meantime Mr. Gibson gave Manufacturers a reputation for aggressive banking that few other institutions can duplicate. It jumped into the personal loan business. It stressed little commercial loans to little businessmen. It played ball with the Administration, was the first big Manhattan bank to accept RFC money. Its $230,000,000 of Governments consist almost entirely of long-term issues. Other banks fight for low-yield, short maturities every time an issue is offered, but for five years Manufacturers has preferred the higher returns to be had on Governments due in ten years or more. And in explaining his unorthodox...
...operative teamwork, every man playing his own game for the first few minutes. Toward the end of the period the Crimson men began to close up on the Engineers, the lead teetering from one side to the other. A last minute drive climaxed by clever handling of the ball by Garth clinched the game for M.I.T...
Playing a mediocre Bridgewater Teachers College yesterday afternoon, sloppy playing and poor handling of the ball lost the game for the Jayvees...