Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years ago in the Rose Bowl at Pasadena occurred the most famous blunder of modern football. Roy Riegels, California centre, picked up a Georgia Tech fumble, ran it 73 yd. the wrong way. Two yards from his own goal-line a teammate stopped him. but two Georgia Tech tacklers knocked him across the line. The referee gave the ball to California two inches in front of the goalline. On the next play, Georgia Tech scored a safety, which won the game and the "national championship" for that year, 8 to 7. Last week, on a cool windy clay...
...University authorities. The President merely "recognizes" the affair, and declares it "closed." There is no sign that it is recognized as an extreme result of over-emphasis. In an atmosphere where football is considered the central interest of college life, it probably passes as a regrettable but minor blunder. To those who think of a university as something more than a field-house and a stadium, it will appear as the outcome of a wide-spread evil in contemporary college life...
...holes to win. Knowledge of his apparently impregnable position made him nervous. He had a six at the twelfth, a five on the fifteenth. Needing three par-fours now for a tie, he dubbed a twelve-inch putt on the sixteenth, took a five instead of a four. This blunder, which would have destroyed the poise of most golfers, appeared to invigorate Von Elm. He played the seventeenth in four, put a mashie shot 15 feet wide of the pin on the eighteenth green and sank the putt, almost angrily, for the birdie and a 292 to match Burke...
...They appear to be, in addition, a socialistic blunder. Some one is empowered by government action?and such action is by no means always just or sensible?to prevent me buying and selling what I want, whence I want, in such a sort and quantity and price as I need for the conduct of my business and the provision of my livelihood. . . . I resent . . . interference. Even if I misjudge, I am entitled to my misjudgment...
...history of man is pock marked by war. During these periods of human strife much that is valiant and all that is evil in man is flaunted before the public. Reputations rise and fall as the years go on, but they are reputations built upon a blunder or a heroic gesture. An era of peace follows in which the nations analyze themselves, reckoning the wild abandon, of youth or a business depression as the heritage of war. During this era, men as well as nations analyze themselves and their fellows. A host of memories is foisted upon the people. Statesmen...