Word: bench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes thrust his leonine head forward over the shining mahogany bench and solemnly demanded...
...Friday, September 20, each one of whom seemed to have enough stuff to win him a starting assignment. These men were Cliff Wilson, Jim Fearon, and Rick Hedblom. In the Exoter game, it was Cliff Wilson who received the starting call while the other two were relegated to the bench. Fearon, however, refused to be phased by such a little thing as having the captain of the team hold down the position which he himself coveted. He continued to show so much fight and spirit mingled with such a large amount of downright playing ability that when the Freshmen tangled...
...gentleman with the 12 -gauge double-barrel shotgun. He is right where he belongs - with his posterior perched on a bench. With those shiny, tight-fitting riding boots I'll guarantee that if he is foolhardy enough to venture "up the trail," he'll need someone to carry him home. That type of boot is made for riding and not for walking...
...judge has a higher reputation for impartiality than Baron Hewart, the Lord Chief Justice of England, but last week he reported after 13 years on the Empire's highest bench: ''The only impartiality possible to the human mind is that which arises from an understanding of neither side of the case...
...squad as a whole. If the second and third stringers are always on the ball, and under Stahley there is a little doubt about that, the A team men are kept looking carefully after their laurels, else they wake up one day and find themselves crowding the bench while someone from West Podunk Academy is disporting in their place on the field. One such pusher, is a guard called Cheever, a converted centre, who though weighing but 155 pounds, has scratched his way up from the lower shelves to a B team ranking in a position he had never played...