Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beginning of the last quarter. Southern California had the ball on Notre Dame's 16-yd. line -the result of a penalty on Notre Dame for interference, plus a lateral pass and plays against the left side of the Notre. Dame line, plus a stunning burst of determination. Gaius ("Gus") Shaver, Southern California's 185-lb. towheaded quarterback from Azusa, Calif., made a first down on the 16-yd. line. After Sparling made an 11yd. gain around left end, Shaver smashed through to touchdown behind a massed shift...
...slipped down into the basement to play bandit. All the family were at dinner when Billy entered the dining room carrying his father's shotgun. Boasted Bandit Billy: "I got a bullet in it." Billy's father stood up, walked toward his son. Billy shot him dead, burst into tears...
When Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey burst into the best-seller lists, loud was the clucking from the critics' henroost. Drowned in the almost unanimous cackle of praise were a few deprecatory chirps, chiefly to the effect that it was a pity Author Wilder had not chosen a U. S. scene. When The Angel That Troubled the Waters and The Woman of Andros showed him still far from home, deprecatory chirps became louder. In The Long Christmas Dinner, a collection of six one-act plays no commercial producer would care to put on. Author...
...police near the borderline between the Chinese City and the Japanese Concession. Arrested mobsmen swore later that they had been paid $40 Mex. ($10) each by Japanese agents provocateurs. However this might be the Japanese garrison commander repulsed rioters from the vicinity of the Japanese concession with a warning burst of machine gun fire, then unlimbered his field pieces and dropped 40 small explosive shells in the Chinese quarter of Tientsin...
...star of the best backfield in the Big Ten, perhaps the best in the country. His favorite play is a sweeping left end run. He follows his interference closely till he passes the line of scrimmage, pauses to elude tacklers in the secondary defense, then breaks away in a burst of the unexpected speed which has won many a game for Northwestern and which, against Minnesota last week, helped clinch Northwestern's Big Ten championship. Minnesota, leading 14 to o in the first half, was still ahead, 14 to 7, when the half ended. Rentner caught the kick...