Word: marker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Winthrop attempt at field goal early in the second period was blocked. Later in the period, Yale completed a series of passes, bringing the ball to the Crimson five-yard marker. But the line held, and the ball went to Harvard on downs...
...producer). The world of Damon Runyon is no less unique, apart and unreal than that of Lewis Carroll or P. G. Wodehouse. For one thing, it has a language of its own, in which a prison is a college, a horse is a beetle, an I. O. U. a marker, a child a punk. And in the lawless cosmos of this oldtime Hearst sportswriter, fictionist and cinema scenarist, criminals are regarded as diverting eccentrics; slaughter, a mere irrelevancy and the underworld, a sort of jocular never-never land. With Howard Lindsay, Depression's most prosperous collaborator (She Loves...
...their Runyon need not be told that the criminals are made to feel ludicrously uneasy by the State trooper, that the orphan proves invaluable in thwarting the bankers and bringing the course of true love to a satisfactory conclusion. As has already been demonstrated on the screen (Little Miss Marker, Lady for a Day), the more involved a Runyon character is written, the harder it is to act. Actor Harrington seems to interpret Marco not so much as a droll picaroon but as a bumbling slob. But as Mike, Actor Sweeney is a soft-spoken Runyon killer of the first...
...speed. . . . Ahead of me stretched a seemingly illimitable field of glaring white with an eight-inch black strip down the centre to guide me. . . . Faster & faster I went. It was the first time a world's high-speed record had been attempted on salt. . . . I passed my first marker, a huge 'No. 6' three feet high, painted on a large square board. This indicated to me that I had six miles to go before I reached the beginning of the measured mile. . . . I passed...
Seven boats, each with eight oars protruding, lined up like as many centipedes on the west side of the Hudson river, each held in place by a marker bost. That is the scene upon which the spectators in the 40 flatcars look. The official yacht draws up astern. An old, but erect man, Julian W. Curtiss, a Yale oarsman of the seventies and referee for almost three decades, steps forward...