Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...valor surged, however, in the breast of the Dictator's trim aide-de-camp, Victor Larenas. Careless of spoiling his gaudy green uniform, he rushed up to amateur assassin Olachea, grasped him by the neck, flung him to the ground...
...Arch, the interior of the Metropolitan Opera House. He did not approve the theory of Manhattan skyscrapers, but he redesigned the Ritz Tower, smart apartment hotel. He believed that the inflation of real estate values necessarily brought about by skyscrapers and the subsequent deflation of vast areas of "unimproved" ground, made for economic instability. Of tall architecture he said: "Most of our skyscrapers . . . [are] elongated packing boxes, the architecture of whose midriff sections had best be passed over in haste. Many make me think of plum puddings whose raisins have settled on one or two sides. Certainly...
Power on the Ground...
...diving into the strong side of the line. The play wasn't as a rule very effective against Dartmouth but it affords a contrast to the usual straight run and might be a real weapon if used at less frequent intervals. With Booth at quarterback, however, the chief ground gaining plays found him doing the carrying behind a devastating line drive. Time and again he would fake the crossbuck and then turning ahead march through large openings in the Dartmouth forward wall before meeting the slightly flatfooted secondary. Or again he would waltz of tackle and gingerly dodge...
...much is sympathy with the ideal behind this suggestion as we are--that of giving the greatest athletic outlet to the greatest number of men, we feel that the move is attempting to cover ground which has already been thoroughly pre-empted and sown. The comparison between lightweight crews and football teams is slightly tenuous, inasmuch as physical limitations are more definitely prescribed in crew than in football. Lack of weight or height precludes the possibility of pulling a sweep on the varsity crew, whereas football is full of notable exceptions where weight has given way to courage and power...