Word: halfway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Meusel, Tony Lazzeri in real baseball action and almost smells the fresh rolled diamond, the frowsy gloves, the players' sweaters, the hero is filmed winning the final world series game for his team by sliding for home with a vicious lunge that sweeps him along the ground halfway from third...
...fall of the puck at the start of the game, Zarakov gave the spectators a hint of the way the balance would turn when he whirled in front of the Laval net, took a lightning pass from Tudor and caged the puck for the Crimson's first score. Halfway through the first period Captain Ellison dashed down the left lane and netted a powerful drive from an acute angle. A. Matte made the lone Canadian tally near the period's close on a duplicate of Ellison's feat...
...carnage: "It was no moment for kid-gloved warfare nor the niceties of chivalrous fighting, and I drove my sword through the back of one man who was in the very act of yelling, 'Hack the -in pieces and throw her to the dogs,' and I cut halfway through the neck of another ... as I wheeled about, I laid one black throat open to see the bone and sent my point through another filthy ragged jellabia in the region of its owner's fifth rib . . . from among seven bodies, some yet twitching in a pool of blood...
...other Freshman crews took part in the race informally, dropping out about halfway down the course...
...point (between Putney and Barnes) where it is still customary to hold these annual races. But this day it was calm, at least not torn with tide-rips as it was last year when the Oxford shell water-logged and sank. And one's family could get a halfway decent look at the show this year, for it was held in the morning before the plebs were turned loose from the factories to swarm the banks and rowdy on the bridgeheads...