Word: game
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prominent men, from Jimmy Stewart to Howard Hughes. She is suspected of being an "intellectual." She has a hardheaded, serious-minded approach to her career (she is probably Hollywood's only star who regularly reads the Wall Street Journal). Trying to add these things up remains a favorite game at Hollywood dinner parties...
...frantic '403, fences had been shortened to make the home run cheaper; and in a good many other games, the rules had been changed to accent the offense. In the '303 many a final basketball score was 34-30 or thereabouts. In Madison Square Garden fortnight ago, a college quintet, Ohio's Bowling Green, scored 97 points, the highest in the Garden's history. No less than four professional basketball teams had scored 100 or more points this season only to lose the game...
...discovered that they had jumped 75%. Football's controversial free-substitution rule, allowing coaches to march armies of offensive & defensive specialists in & out at will, had put touchdown-making on a production line (TIME, Nov. 22). Everyone agreed that the rule favored teams with manpower, and took the game away from all-round stars. But there seemed to be little chance of a change in the rules...
...power play," which has transformed big-time hockey into high-pressure shinny, is producing 24% more goals than in the age of the great Howie Morenz. In New Haven last week, a protest was heard. A test game, permitting only three offense players in the attacking zone at any time, was played before 25 New England prep-school coaches. Said Richard Cuyler, co-coach of South Kent School's hockey team and a leading opponent of power-play hockey: "The power play results in more rough play in the end zone, often resulting in organized shinny, indiscriminate shooting, banging...
...hockey game, a dawn affair between Lowell and Kirkland, saw the Deacons win easily, 4 to 1, as penalties kept the Bellboys in their own territory throughout...