Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...body it is sporting for a fast bowler to pitch his ball strained British political relations with Australia in 1933. When King Edward abdicated last winter the consternation in Australia was no greater than that which would have prevailed last week had Braddles been "bowled for a duck egg" (put out with no runs). For Braddles to abdicate would simply be unthinkable. A cricket prodigy, Braddles, now 28, was born in Cootamundra, New South Wales, left school at 16 to devote all his time to cricket, has been the world's most famed cricketer since 1930. Cricket...
...Virginia City, Mountain City, Goldfield and the scattered "ghost towns," to the great open pit mines at Ely and such recent strikes as Jumbo in the northwest; its sheep and cattle; its agricultural industries (alfalfa, turkeys, cantaloupes) in the Fallen irrigation district; its abundant game-deer, antelope, bighorn sheep, duck, pheasant, sage hen, quail and myriad trout-there is little for them to say except that Nevada is so undeveloped that it is one place a man can still go and pioneer. Nevada still has railroads (the Battle Mountain to Austin, for example) powered by automobile engines. Tonopah...
...Eric" Erickson's collection of portraits included choice Rembrandts. His 1,000-acre duck-shooting box at Brookhaven, L. I. was the envy of his gunning friends. The Megantic Fish & Game Club in northwestern Maine prospered under his twelve-year presidency and his fly-casting was respected by the troutiest...
...Roosevelt had Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes on her right and the duck-hunting senior Associate Justice, Willis Van. Devanter, at her left. All the other members of the Court except liberal Louis Dembitz Brandeis, who, at 80, goes to no evening functions, and liberal Harlan F. Stone, recuperating from a recent illness, were ranged along the board according to precedence. Senator Ashurst and Representative Summers, heads of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees, who before the week was out were to be handed a bill to dilute the power of the honored guests, were also at the table. Likewise...
Chief Gabrielson, an expert who has been with the Survey since 1915, reviewed its New Deal program of restoring marsh land for duck breeding grounds and refuges. Minimum requirement, said he, is 7,500,000 acres. The Survey is about halfway to that goal. But, continued the broad-beamed Chief, "there are two small groups among people who hunt who may defeat this program." One group is composed of commercial hunters, usually petty thieves and miscreants. "So long as a section of the American public will pay exorbitant prices for contraband game in restaurants, night clubs and hotels, we will...