Word: bowler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because an Ashtabula bowler was kept at home by his wife's illness last week, one Mike Blazek of nearby Conneaut, Ohio, was recruited to substitute for him in the American Bowling Congress tournament, which was last week entering its seventh and final week in Chicago's huge Coliseum (TIME, April...
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...
Colonel Apted was immediately offered the post of manager which he declined on the grounds that he doesn't know anything about the sport. Although his secretary, an enthusiastic bowler herself, came forth with a cheerful suggestion about having a general day off declared for the match, the Colonel remarked that all alley-work would be done on the cops' own time...
Yesterday Eliot House members reported that a man in a bowler hat had been looking for a stray...
...London's big, depressing Liverpool St. station, plunged headfirst into a 90-ft. mail bag post chute. Mrs. Thomas screamed, fainted. Husband James slithered downward in darkness, suddenly appeared on a moving belt in an underground post office. Three feet ahead on the wide belt danced his unharmed bowler hat. Mr. Thomas, likewise unharmed, was quickly sorted from the mail by postal employes, returned to his wife who cried, "Oh, Squibs...