Word: fouling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the Ontario Conservatives and during the pre-boom years, the Hydro-Commission had made four major, long-term contracts with power companies in the Province of Quebec. Liberal "Mitch" roared his opinion that these were foul, false and stank. Ontario, he claimed, had contracted for more power than she could use and at too high prices. It would cost the Province some $400,000,000 over a period of the next 40 years to pay what she owed under these contracts-so in effect "Mitch" simply tore them up by having his Parliament pass the Power...
...Yelling "Foul!" before a glove had been laid on him, Trade-Publisher Martin Quigley (Motion Picture Herald, Motion Picture Daily) loudly proclaimed that anyone who took cinema seriously was simply being sham & vexatious. "It is the industry's judgment and mine," sparred Publisher Quigley, "that the entertainment film belongs in the province of entertainment and nowhere else. If there are others who wish to use this medium for a message which they imagine the world is yearning to hear, the obvious course for them is to get a camera and go to work." Bouncing out of the opposite corner...
When the heavyweight title changes hands, as it has done five times in the past seven years, the U. S. sporting public anticipates 1) dissatisfaction with the fight, 2) confusion after it. In 1930 Max Schmeling won the title from Jack Sharkey on a foul. In 1932 Sharkey won it back on a decision which many experts considered erroneous. In 1933, Primo Camera knocked out Jack Sharkey with what looked like a gentle push. In 1934, clownish Max Baer knocked out Camera in an eccentric bout. In 1935, Braddock outpointed Baer in a hopelessly dull bout. Last week...
...broad jump. Johnson's poor performance has been laid by some to a mental condition imposed upon him by the memory of a torn muscle acquired on the same track a year ago. It is to be doubted though that this supposed handicap should cause him to foul twice in the broad jump and strain so as he never has before at the finish of the hundred. More likely is it that Ben had an off day familiar to most track...
When 250 ft. from the ground he pulled the cord of his emergency 'chute. It also failed, opening only enough to foul the canvas wings, thus prevent him from desperately attempting his prime ambition -a stall landing without aid from a parachute. Said a witness: "When I realized Clem Sohn was doomed, I felt worse than ever during the World War. . . . The hush coming over the crowd was the most impressive thing I have ever seen. . . . And when Clem Sohn hit the ground, it sounded like an explosion...