Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public of Australia was excited last week by two important events: the national lawn tennis championship and the cricket tests against England for a nonexistent trophy called "The Ashes." There was most excitement "Down Under" about the cricket. Not only had famed Batsman Don Bradman been bowled for a duck (put out with no runs) in the second match, but the crack British bowler, Harold Larwood, had consistently shown a distressing disregard for the safety of opposing batsmen. In the third match he had struck and injured Australia's W. M. Woodfull and W. A. Oldfield. The Australian Board...
...same day last week the Legislatures of North Dakota and Tennessee ratified the 20th Amendment to the Constitution to eliminate "lame duck" sessions of Congress. They were the 32nd and 33rd States to do so. Next day Idaho and New Mexico fell into line. Then, over the weekend, began a race to see which State would be the 36th which would complete ratification. Favorite was Massachusetts, benefited by one hour in time. Georgia and Utah were champing at the bit. At this point a dark horse developed. In Jefferson City, Mo. members of the General Assembly were secretly telephoned...
Many a South Carolinian promptly rose to denounce and deny a baseless slur not only on Edward F. Hutton (who in addition to his shooting preserve, maintains a large duck sanctuary) but also on the hospitality of his State. The Columbia Chamber of Commerce investigated the charge, found not even a rumor to support...
...President on the way out, especially if he has been beaten by the biggest vote in history, has small authority over a "lame duck" Congress. Yet last week President Hoover sent Congress a special message on debtor relief which touched off sudden springs of electric action on Capitol Hill...
...football team, was its light-heavyweight boxer. Now he is at Harvard. Mr. Zemurray, when in Boston, lives at the Ritz. In Tangipahoa Parish 50 mi. north of New Orleans he has a vast country place, stocked with wild deer, pheasant and quail. Its artificial lakes are planted with duck potato to lure wildfowl. It also has a golf course on which its owner occasionally breaks 100. Mr. Zemurray endowed a Department of Middle American Research at Tulane for $1,000,000, gave it the famed Gates collection of Mayan relics...