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Word: balled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strokes with 280, seemed the winner. Ralph Guldahl started the last nine needing a 33, three under par, to beat him. He got a birdie, two pars. Then he hit a weak, 22O-yd. drive on the 480-yd. 13th and his jig seemed to be up. His ball was in a downhill lie; yawning in front of the green 260 yards away was a deep, water-filled ravine. Without hesitation Guldahl took a spoon instead of a safe iron, swung with all his 200 pounds, sent the ball whistling across the ravine to the green, six feet from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Masters' | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...nine-ounce steel ball was dropped on a pane of the same glass from a height of 28 feet. The glass bulged and cracked but did not break. A young woman stood behind another pane while Chief Bender, famed oldtime pitcher, wound up and let fly a baseball at it. The glass stopped the ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Softness for Safety | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...Blue Devlis were all not to have a busman's holiday at the expense of any fastball pitching Harvard could offer, but John's "nothing ball" and a loose game kept the tourists on a par with Duke until the seventh, when the potent opposition pounded out three runs to clinch the slugfest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASEBALL TEAM MAKES FAIR SPRING SHOWING | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Brackett started on the mound against Nave, since the Georgetown tilt was rained out. Curtiss relieved him in the third, and after a shaky start, settled down to pitch a good brand of ball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASEBALL TEAM MAKES FAIR SPRING SHOWING | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Down the alley now the pins looked hazy. Bowler McGeorge felt a little sick at his stomach. His palms sweated so that he had to dry them. He dabbed his fingers with chalk, got a grip of sorts on himself, picked up the ball, sighted down the maple strip, and let fly. It was his only erratic shot. There was a gasp as it crossed over, broke toward the Brooklyn (left) side. But on the left side is the 1-2 pocket, which bowlers sometimes call Last Chance Gulch, and right in there Bowler McGeorge's last straying hook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Without a Miss | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

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