Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bound together by their common passion for the courage of the gamecock, the coast-to-coast cocking fraternity ranges from millionaires to moochers. Top crust are the socialite members of exclusive cock clubs who hold tournaments on their estates for a pedigreed handful of their friends. Bottom crust are the bands of shady promoters who operate in sinister back-road barnyards or city hideaways- sometimes traveling in a circuit with a portable pit that folds up as simply as a bridge table. But 90% of the U. S. cocking fraternity are plain, everyday citizens...
...offensive player's duration of stay in the defensive foul circle. Such a player may stay as long as he wants in the outer half of the foul circle, provided that he is not in possession of the ball. If he has the ball, however, he may only hold it for three seconds...
...epidemic of hold-overs seems to have struck the Boston theatres, with the result that cinemaddicts of the vicinity of Harvard Square must fall back on their old standby, the U. T. For the rest of the week there is a program being offered which, if not of the kind to rekindle with terrible intensity the fires of that beautiful loyalty, is nevertheless much better than average. It includes "That Certain Age," a picture far better, and "Straight, Place, and Show," one not nearly so bad, as many of the advance reports would indicate...
...shirted second Varsity basketball team composed of Dick Sullivan, Dick Rabenold, Homer Peabody, Sam White, and Fran Simpson threw up a tight defense and did better than hold their own in a heated half-hour scrimmage against Captain Lupien's first team as Coach Wes Fesler sent his hoopmen into their second week of practice...
...players from last year including Tom Healy and Slim Curtiss as pitchers, Bob Fulton, catcher, Lupe Lupien, Captain Art Johns, and Dick Grondahl, infielders, and Jo-Jo Soltz, Bob Gannett, and Rud Hoye, outfielders, the former Ohio Stater should be able to build a team which will more than hold its own in college circles...