Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME is mistaken. In your summary last Friday of college football you credited Willis Ward of Michigan with blocking Illinois' place kick for the point after touchdown (TIME, Nov. 13). The kick was low and so wide that it barely reached the corner of the end zone. More important in that game was the five-yard penalty on Illinois which placed the ball on its one-yard line in Michigan's possession with...
...still dusk fortnight ago a small closed car sped along the highway between San Jose, Calif, and San Mateo. Inside were two kidnappers and their victim, Brooke Hart, 22. son of San Jose's wealthiest department store owner. On the San Mateo bridge across a corner of San Francisco Bay, the car stopped. The three men got out. One of them from behind smashed Brooke Hart's skull with a brick. Together they bound his limp body with baling wire, stole his wallet, lifted him over the bridge railing, heaved him into San Francisco...
...Ladies' musical reputations have been safe. He prefers to talk about his farm in Newburgh, N. Y., where he grows grapes and makes wine; or about the House of Steinway for which he was working when the present Steinway heads wore knickerbockers and the factory sprawled over the corner of Manhattan...
...administration's gold maneuvering amounts to a corner on the newly mined gold of the world. But it is not affecting as yet the movement of gold owned by the various governments. There have been some large transfers of gold from Paris to London recently, but this is believed to be wholly due to the French budgetary situation, and fears that France may be compelled to leave the gold standard...
Dartmouth's hard-hitting seven-man defense had Princeton's backfield tumbling and fumbling until the second half when Princeton shifted to a passing attack. Of 14 forward passes, Princeton completed eight, one an underhand toss to the corner of the field for the only touchdown of the game, 7-to-0. Princeton remained unbeaten, untied, unscored-on for the season...