Word: booth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Haven the boys stormed out of Woolsey Hall full of fire and the love of Old Eli. They swarmed across the Green, lifted a heavy wooden booth off the Courthouse steps as if it were a match box, dumped it in the middle of the trolley tracks...
...Sage's phone began to Pierce the quiet. "I'm calling from a Booth in Boston," his apprentice announced. "Where shall I leave the car?" Parker by the common, or Draper around a pole. It'll be Shafer." Harvard 28 Coast Guard...
...never more aptly demonstrated than in the final seconds of the game, when Vince Moravec intercepted a Princeton pass in the Harvard end zone. The Crimson stands were hushed in sorrow, thinking the Tigers had scored a safety, and even some of the players were mystified when referee Albie Booth ruled it a touchback and awarded the Varsity a first down on its 20-yard line...
...Virginian, Alice Hegan Rice's Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch; 1905-Mrs. Humphry Ward's The Marriage of William Ashe, 1908-Rex Beach's The Barrier; 1912-Gene Stratton Porter's The Harvester; 1914-Eleanor H. Porter's Polly anna. 1916-Booth Tarkington's Seventeen. Harold Bell Wright's When a Man's a Man; 1917-H. G. Wells's Mr. Britling Sees It Through; 1919-V. Blasco Ibáñez's The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Henry Adams' The Education of Henry Adams; 1921-Sinclair...
...official scorer himself). Last year, when the scorers charged Hank Greenberg with a twelfth-inning error in the sixth game, Corum calmly said the play was a base hit for Stan Hack. "I told 'em that I could see the play better than anyone else-our broadcasting booth was in left field-and I saw the ball bounce over Hank's head; he never got a glove on it." At 10 o'clock that night, the official scorers decided that Bill was right, scratched the error from Hank's record...