Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Many heinous things are done in the name of sport, but nothing is more so than rating rodeos as Sport [TIME, Oct. 22]. They are, in the main, the most degrading, disgusting, diabolical display of cruelty that in modern times has been staged...
...political massacre. On Election Eve in the tiny mining town of Kelayres, 600 Democrats hopeful of ending a 20-year Republican rule in their township decided to parade. A truckload of children and a man carrying a U. S. flag led a torchlight procession four blocks up the main street to the intersection where Republican Boss Joseph Bruno and his relatives have houses on three corners. On the fourth corner stands the Church of the Immaculate Conception...
...University of California's main campus at Berkeley, across the bay from San Francisco, four student strike-leaders were pelted with eggs, tomatoes. The chairman of the County's Joint Americanism Committee revealed that for two months 22 student spies had been blacklisting student and faculty radicals at Berkeley. At nearby San Mateo Junior College four liberal student speakers from Berkeley were pummeled, jailed, sent home with orders to stay there. In neighboring Santa Clara County, officials of San Jose Junior College issued a call for student vigilantes. Santa Clara University expelled the editor of its student newspaper...
These are probably two of the main defects with the present setup at Soldiers Field, and they go deep into the fundamentals of the game. For the ineffectiveness of the ground attack should not, as it might at first seem, be rung up solely against the men who carry the ball. More than half of the blame rests on the line's slowness and lack of power in charging and the guard's equal slowness in running interference. Even Jack Buckler of the Army wouldn't have been a world-beater last Saturday if his frontiersmen hadn't been opening...
Critics charged Kingsford-Smith with trying to set up a "counter-attraction" to the main show. Replied he: "In this flight, more difficult than the England-to-Australia race, I will show that l am no squib...