Word: lone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Americans save Webb. They play a clever, maneuvering, short-passing game. In combination play, an English Back usually stays near his goal continually. No. 3, the pivotal man, pairs either with him or with No. 2, leaving No. 1 to "ride off" the opposing defense or play a lone hand. An American Back often sets off on field-long gallops to score. No. 3 then drops back. Nos. 1 and 2 try to pair together at all times...
...father, a pork-packer, had started life with but a single pig, but so brilliantly had he manipulated that lone porker, that he had at length attained unto dizzying financial plenitude and a mansion on Chicago's Gold Coast. He had, moreover, a passion for cleanliness. In public life, he stood for: "Clean Water Supply (Prohibition!), Clean Education (Paul Revere's Ride!), Clean Literature (Pollyanna!), Clean Minds (belief in the stork...
High over the Bay of Bengal sped a lone seaplane, bound for the coast of Burma. Looking down on the watery waste, the pilot beheld three other seaplanes, westbound. The man above was Major A. Stuart MacLaren, British Air Force; the planes below bore Lieutenants Smith, Wade and Nelson, of the U. S. A. It was the meeting of history's first round-the-globe air-racers, but the participants did not stop to exchange greetings...
...Lone Star Staters, Lewis White and Louis Thalheimer of Texas University, kept jealous guard of their doubles title...
Headwaiter Jones pitched sterling ball, showing a remarkable knack of always hitting those effete managers who had been casting aspersions on his rowing form at stroke in the Waiters' eight. In fact the managers two lone runs came in the third inning with the bases full of sore-limbed scoffers when Duggan, after chasing a long fly after catching it as he ripped on the quoits peg, and after rolling over and over on the grass, rose smiling and dizzy to throw to second base, in order to put out Halated, who had apparently fallen asleep between second and third...