Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chairman Geiger of the B. A. A. Athletic Committee has announced that the track will be ready, in spite of the builders' strike. It is practically completed, and a squad of volunteers composed of members of the B. A. A. will be on hand Saturday morning to bolt it together. The corners were placed in the Arena on top of the ice recently and found satisfactory...
...Freshmen's bolt was shot for the moment; the Tigers, aided by a five-yard penalty, completed a 30-yard pass, Smith to Tyson, after the next kickoff. Four plunges sufficed to tie the score just before the period ended. After the kick-off. Princeton recovered a fumbled punt on the Freshmen's 20-yard line. Carrying on with the same drive which netted the previous goal, Captain Smith carried the ball over in four plunges. At this point the Tiger rush stopped up, and a period was spent in useless passes and exchanges of kicks, accompanied by many fumbles...
...Princeton scores came like a bolt from the blue. Shortly after the opening of the second half, Murrey dropped back into kick formation, as Lourie sped forward with an interferer at his side, not to turn until he reached up and snared Murrey's perfectly timed throw. Churchill partially misjudged the trajectory of the ball and was nullified by interference almost immediately. Lourie reversed his field, sped past Fitzgerald, outwitting this last cog in the University's defense, and zigzagging his way to the line...
...statement of the thirty-one has with a single bolt cleared a political atmosphere threatening trouble for the Republican hopes at the polls. Carrying as it does the backing of the most ardent supporters of the league idea, it will, in the event of Mr. Harding's election, make impossible the rejection of such an idea. Even more, it will make imperative and certain the immediate application of that idea to the international affairs of the United States. No one can deny the influence which the group led by Mr. Root will have in the affairs of state...
...over the problem of adopting a suitable plank on the peace treaty seems to have been safely avoided. The sub-committee, acting with praiseworthy adroitness has succeeded in agreeing upon a resolution sufficiently non-committal to be acceptable to all parties. Senators Johnson and Borah may decide not to "bolt," Senator Lodge rests upon his laurels with a sense of gratification at having overridden his opponents' objections, and even the mildest reservationists seem to have fallen in line...