Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invite Texas A. & M. The Aggies, led by Jarrin' Jack Kimbrough, a 220-lb. steam roller, had mowed down 19 opponents in a row, were considered the best team the Southwest had ever seen. But in 57 agonizing seconds last week, the Farmers saw their $100,000 bid to the Rose Bowl vanish. At Austin, where no Texas A. & M. team has beaten Texas since 1922, the old jinx spurred a team of Longhorns that had been twice beaten this year to paralyze their old rivals with a lightning-swift stab. With Fullback Peter Layden tossing two magnificent forward...
There can be little doubt that the exigencies of the present armament program and the current emphasis upon unity in the common effort have strengthened the hand of Mr. Dies in his bid for a renewed subscription. No one questions the threat or even the actual existence, of a certain degree of attempted sabotage directed at the defense program. The country needs a watchdog to guard against such criminal activity. But everyone knows that a good watchdog is not an inexperienced loud-mouthed puppy that scents a burglar in every bush and snaps at every stranger. The Dies Committee...
Beginning the second half with a strong bid for a tally, the Coasters showed of the fighting spirit that has brought them to the top of Harvard's House team list. A weakness in down the field blocking, which has hampered them more than anything else in the past, begged down the drive, and the game ended with neither side threatening strongly...
...College Station, Tex., the Texas Aggies, another steam roller, squashed Rice, 25-10-0, for their 19th victory in a row and a probable bid to the Rose Bowl. Mighty Jack Kimbrough, the Aggies' 220-lb. All-America fullback, carried the ball 18 times for a gain of 108 yards. Bill Henderson, a gangling sophomore, stole the show by catching eight successive forward passes for a gain of 117 yards...
This conglomeration of fable, fantasy and monstrosity is British Producer Alexander Korda's biggest bid for the spectacle trade long ago relinquished by D. W. Griffith. Two million dollars and two years' tribulations were spent in his transposition of the Arabian Nights tales to the screen, during which the outbreak of war forced him to move production from his Denham studios near London to the United Artists lot in Hollywood at an added expense...