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...Francisco, Umpire Hap O'Connor, who had umpired many baseball games in Japan, urged that baseball be continued to confound the Japs. Said he: "The Japs so envy us for our baseball prowess . . . that to call it off during wartime would be like a tonic to them. I think they would construe it to mean we were becoming panicky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Brave New Season | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

...snapped back to him. Army operates in the old Dartmouth style of a single wingback, and in formation right this places Mazur at the tailback spot. Here he is suited to carry on the running pass plays with which Bill Hutchinson of Dartmouth under Blaik's tutelage used to confound the Crimson secondary...

Author: By John C. Sullard, | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/4/1941 | See Source »

...other in bewildering confusion. Of course, by the end of the picture, the whole plot is very simple,--to William Powell. But script-writers, playing their merry game of hide-and-seek-the-murderer with the audience, seem to have overstepped the bounds of sportsmanship and produce plots to confound even the mightiest mental power-house...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/2/1940 | See Source »

...scrambles legend and topical satire. While her husband King Lot is away fighting Arthur, Queen Morgause, comic symbol of the egocentric wife, attempts the seduction of lovesick King Pellinore (3.2 Don Quixote) and Sir Grummore Grummursum (Sancho Panza on rye). Meanwhile her neglected sons Gawaine, Agravaine, Gaheris and Gareth confound their Saracen tutor Palomides, who talks rather like Charlie Chan, and beg stories from heretic St. Torealvac (parody brogue), who inhabits a beehive and drinks mountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Arthurian Cocktail | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

PINKHAM NOTCH, N. H.--Out of the teeth of the worst autumn blizzard in Mount Washington's recent history, a girl and two youths trudged today, alive and well, to confound forest rangers who had given them only "one chance in a million" to survive...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 10/24/1939 | See Source »

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