Word: launching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...able to use their bodies effectively, but can afford to do so even more. So far, however, they've been clinging too closely to the inrushing player after hitting him. A body check should be made quickly and cleanly, and the defense man should then break clear quickly to launch the attack once again. The points are not last ditch defenses, but important cogs in the attack. The Harvard squad has the stuff; it lacks but the offensive idea needed to make it start going places. --BY TIME...
Almost as foggy as Narragansett Bay fortnight ago when Coast Guard launch 290 sprayed the Black Duck with machine gun fire, killing three of her four occupants, were the facts of this latest episode in Federal liquor suppression. Agreed: the Black Duck was a rumrunner with 500 cases aboard; her stern was peppered with bullets from C. G. 290. Coast Guard claim: a siren first warned the Black Duck to stop; she tried to escape; a one-pound shot failed to halt her; machine gun fire was a last resort; the Black Duck either veered her course or rose...
...bankers might or might not reach. But when Mr. Fox announced that Fox Film assets were $73,000,000 in excess of liabilities, the stockholders, reassured, decided that no immediate receivership was necessary. As another sedative for stockholders, the company also last week announced that it will soon launch a $20,000,000 production schedule, the biggest it has ever undertaken...
...that the speedboat was stopped when fired upon. He said that Downey had bled to death because the guardsmen had not called for help or administered first aid. While they loitered, city police summoned an ambulance and a fire truck, hoisted the inert 200-lb. Downey out of the launch...