Word: coveys
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...that spotted the field, swaying past poised tacklers; and the roar of the prodigious hippodrome rose to delirium, for it seemed for a moment that he might get away, might do the thing that was half-expected of him and end his 20th game with a touchdown. But a covey of runners brushed down on him, bore him out of bounds before he had run 43 yards. The 85,000 went home, content. They had seen what they came for. They had seen, also, Marek (Ohio State) break lose from one tackier, jump another, cross Grange's goal line...
...crowd on Mitchel Field, Long Island, watched a covey of 16 airplanes, some big, some small, all noisy, whirl once around the flying field and diminish until they were no more than a dash of black pepper on the horizon. The planes in that covey were the entrants in the first race of the Mitchel Field Airplane Tournament...
...association has at the end of the year about the same amount of money on band as it had one year ago; but it has meanwhile paid $100 of its indebtedness. Its unusual expense was the purchase of a challenge cup, the cost of which it was intended to covey subscriptions for this purpose. Less than one half the cost of the cup was so obtained; the remainder is charged to the running expenses of the association...