Search Details

Word: downing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

While Quarterback Marsters of Dartmouth was taking brief rests on the sidelines, the game with Columbia had the air of a reunion. At other times Quarterback Marsters rushed up and down the field with the ball under his arm. Dartmouth 34, Columbia 0. Yale and Brown started a football series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

At the end of the first half Duke led the Navy by a point; in the second Duke's tired spunky team was worn down by a Navy squad kept fresh by substitutions. Navy 45, Duke 13.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

Welcome Danger (Paramount). Like all Harold Lloyd's comedies, this is built around a character fundamentally sensible and likable but who seems crazy because of some predominant trait or mania. Botany is the current mania and the character is a police chief's son who, asked to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

In Springfield, N. J., an automobile proceeded down the road in a manner that interested a motorcycle patrolman. Drawing alongside, he found Driver Frank Urban, his hands off the wheel, peering into a compass in his lap.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

In Indianapolis, one M. J. Abbott, golfing, tried for a birdie. When the ball landed on the fairway, a crow swooped down, snatched the ball in its beak, flew away. "It's a birdie," said Golfer Abbott's merry companions.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

Previous | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | Next