Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Public Service. A $500 gold medal was awarded to the Bismarck (N. Dak.) Tribune for its news reports and editorials which started a movement for self-help among victims of the dust bowl. To the Edmonton (Alberta) Journal went a special bronze plaque for leadership in defense of a free press in the Province of Alberta...
There was a knock on the door. The Vagabond sloshed his safety razor in the bowl, took a sideways squint at the inch-wide path through his frothy whiskers and traipsed down the hall. It was Dick and Phil, two friends from the Yard...
There are 10,000,000 bowlers in the U. S. A contributing factor to their enthusiasm is the fact that bowling, like golf, is a solo game. A dub and an expert may bowl together and still have fun, for each is competing against his own score: trying to break 200 (upward) as a golfer tries to break 100 (downward). A bowler who averages 190 is good, one who averages 220 is exceptionally good, one who bowls 300 (a perfect game) gets his picture in the papers...
Today you can forget for a moment the Spanish war, the Chinese war, the Government spending-lending plan. Roosevelt, Hitler, Mussolini, Daladier are today just ordinary persons. The Olympic games, the Grand National, the Wimbledon and Davis Cup tennis, Rose Bowl football; they are just ordinary sports events. For today is the start of the world's biggest sports spectacle the opening of the major league baseball season, with sixteen teams ready to start a 154-game grind down to the home stretch and the World Series...
...scrimmage following the highball drill Chief Comslop and Fluff Stevadore ran positively wild churning up the water in the Bowl. Waters admitted that their performance may have been due to a favorable internal influence...