Word: downes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Never before in the history of the city have the reservoirs reached so low a state nor has consumption been so high. The daily consumption of 1,145,000,000 gallons disturbed officials so much that they have warned citizens to take every possible step to cut down on the...
The Band was almost ruled out for the job because its 150 members would not leave enough room in the banquet hall for the N.A.M. Forty men had to be cut from the travelling squad to get it down to the right dimensions.
If real rough hockey and a possible brawl is what you're looking for in the way of entertainment, by all means wend your way down to the Boston Arena tonight. The varsity hockey team and B.U., the two contenders whose most recent skirmish resulted last year in 58 minutes...
The Roller Derby is a watered down potpourri of several sports. It combines the speed of racing, the jamming of a six-day bicycle race, the blocking of football, the checking of hockey, and the team-play of basketball. It is played on an oval, highly-banked maconite track, 16...
Points are scored every time a player on one team laps a member of the opposing team. A "jam" is an effort to score a point and occurs when one of the faster men on a team is shaken loose, usually on a crack-the-whip maneuver, and tries to...