Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first game, Lenhart started off with a superb exhibition of front-wall shots and swamped Rawlins 15 to 6. Using the same tactics, he captured the second game 15 to 9. In the third, however, Rawlins adopted a system of drop shots and corner shots which put a decided cramp in Lenhart's style. Rawlins pressed his advantage and pulled ahead, winning 15 to 10. From this point Rawlins' touch steadily improved, and he won the next game 15 to 11. In the last game he quickly forged ahead of Lenhart and defeated...
...sing. He had lent his voice to a benefit for Russian refugees, organized by the Baron von der Hoeven. As Baritone Tcherkassky opened his mouth, someone upset a bottle. Other diners with bottles, imitative, upset theirs. Some, lacking bottles, dropped plates. A red-faced individual at a corner table threw a coin to Tcherkassky; a hundred others with coins, catching the wit of this gesture, also hurled their loose change to him. He sang one song, began another. The uproar continued. But Tcherkassky finished his program...
...only fireworks in the inaugural ceremonies at Washington, carefully planned to achieve economy and sedateness, were the speech and actions of Vice President Dawes. Instead of accepting the office with all the customary trite mouthings of the nation's highest-paid figurehead, he wound up carefully and clipped the corner of the senatorial plate with a simply fiendish accuracy...
...that time, Joseph Jefferson was the most famous actor on Broadway. Said he: "God bless the Little Church Around the Corner." His remark became the sobriquet of the church and an English idiom...
When Austin took a pass from Chase in the final two minutes of the hockey game with Princeton; and drove the puck past Pepper to the corner of the Tiger net, he brought the Harvard sextet out on the long end of a 5 to 4 count, and clinched the tenth victory for a Crimson team in competition Saturday. This was Austin's third score of the evening. Playing hes last game of hockey for the Crimson, Austin, gave one of the most brilliant exhibitions of his career...