Word: catch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...least eight of them as playing too great an emphasis on winning. In fact the compilers of the list frankly confess that its purpose is to "send the players out on the field with fire in their eyes and a keen determination to win." They have obviously failed to catch the amateur spirit and have made the mistake of fainting athletics with the same sort of commercialism which grew out of the annual touching remembrance to mothers. But the same methods which have been so beneficial to the maintainance of purity of affection in American home life have still another...
...Russian, an ex-soldier of the late Tsar Nicholas II, and the ex-Chief of Police of the Kerensky ex-Government of Russia. When he sought refuge in London, such statesmen as the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill praised him for having done his policeful best in Moscow to catch and hang Lenin and Trotsky. Soon a syndicate of British and Zionist capitalists sent him out to found the Palestine Electric Corp. (TIME, March 4). Today he is the Samuel Insull (see p. 52) of the Near East. Last week he dramatically intervened in the Palestine relief muddle, arranged with quiet...
Apparently those who live in glass houses, not content with a mere throwing of stones, have entered into a somewhat ragged game of catch with the big leagues. It is too early to predict the outcome of the contest, but the constant mention of money adds a taint of professionalism to the proceedings which cannot fall to arouse regret in the ranks of the amateur garden clubs involved. So far the hothouse gang seems to have the edge but the experts are talking knowingly about the dark horse pitcher held in reserve by the big league...
Every Indianaman saw Kelly but none of them could catch him when he picked up Van Nice's pass and ran 30 yards for the winning touchdown. Chicago 13, Indiana...
...little deeper consideration of the case will show these explanations to be fallacious. The man who would do so desperate a deed of wickedness was a man playing for highest stakes: he was trying to catch Jimmy at work. Notice too that this theory accounts for the nonchalance with which Mayor Walker treated the whole affair: his conscience was clear; he need fear...