Word: bench
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gradually the streets of Pasadena emptied as the rout and revel wound out to the Rose Bowl for the annual East-West football game. On a bench in the stadium, Coach Knute Rockne of Notre Dame stroked his jaw as he watched Leland Stanford, in the first few minutes of play, inexorably shoving his team toward its goal line. The Bowl was bedlam, for most of the 55,000 persons present wanted to see Coach Rockne's team shoveded right off the field. Rockne was not worried, merely pensive. He relinquished his jaw, called to him four young...
...came their sweaters, out they trotted, back to the bench came Notre Dame's second string backfield. Halfback Cuddeback of Stanford had scored a field goal. Fullback Nevers of Stanford had been shooting passes that gained and gained. Now the Four Horsemen* started their galloping. Now one, now the other, now the third and fourth, they ran, plunged, dodged, wriggled, twisted. Stuhldreher wrenched his ankle. Layden bored through for a touchdown. A few Stanford plays, a bulletlike pass by Nevers, and it was Layden again who leaped to the interception. The field streamed after him for 70 yards...
Died. U. S. Supreme Court Justice Mahlon Pitney, retired, 66, in Washington, after a long illness. Two strokes of paralysis forced him to resign from the Supreme Court bench two years ago. He was appointed in 1912 by President Taft, whom he met at a dinner given by the Governor of New Jersey. At that dinner he charmed Mr. Taft with pungent anecdotes; they ate, reminisced, chortled together. Soon after, Justice Pitney was notified of his appointment. He had previously sat on the Supreme Bench of New Jersey...
...London in the High Court of Justice, King's Bench Division, before Lord Justice Darling and a special jury composed of men and women, was heard a case legally described as Robinson v. Midland Bank, Limited. It was a civil action, but such were its ramifications that it involved the nephew of Lieutenant General His Highness Maharaja Sir Pratrap Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, a single state in the northernmost part of India. Said The Times...
When the members of the Národni Vybor, or Cabinet, took their seats on the Government bench in the National Assembly at Prague, capital of Czechoslovakia, they noticed that many a bench on the floor of the Assembly was conspicuously empty. The Ministers nodded comprehendingly one to the other; for they were aware that the minority races (Slovaks, Germans, Magyars, Ruthenians) had carried out their oft-declared intention of boycotting the Parliament. Later, the minority Deputies delivered a solemn protest to the world demanding their "fundamental rights." * Thus, debate on the financial situation (most concerned with an unbalanced budget) went...