Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cornell's up and coming basketball quintet will take the floor against Fesler's men tomorrow evening in an Eastern Intercollegiate League contest at the New Indoor Athletic Building. The Ithacans present a formidable outfit after upsetting Yale Monday evening by a 36-27 margin at New Haven, sending the former league leaders down to third place...
...Seine to the Chamber. The first volleys went high above the crowd, splattered the pale stonework of the U. S. Embassy. But the mob swept on, firing in return. The next volleys were low and straight. Torches hurtled through the windows of the Ministry of Marine, setting its ground floor on fire. Terrified mobsters hammered frantically on the locked gates of the Hotel Crillon for shelter...
...shade, and the steadying influence of the team is his running mate, Ray Eddy. Purdue does not worry much if its opponents make points, so long as they do not make too many. Hence, the Purdue style is for the whole team to break fast, rush down the floor at once and shoot. Usually the defense takes care of itself. Last week it failed for the first time in a Conference game this season when Iowa won, 38-to-36. Then Iowa turned around and inexplicably lost (35-to-29) to Northwestern which, weakened by graduation, is no more than...
Realizing that it must buckle down and win a few games to avert a highly disgraceful record, the Crimson quinter will take the floor against a powerful Providence College five at the Indoor Athletic Building at 8 o'clock tonight. Providence is one of the strongest teams in New England, having shown its worth by defeating Yale 35-32 in December...
Paying $2 for a license, Mr. Obadie took his fiancée up to the third floor. There they found an official seated at a desk under a dingy cupid. Whipping through the marriage service at top speed he pronounced them man & wife in less than a minute...