Word: oval
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...benefit of all let them be again repeated. Dr. Eddie O'Brien, refereeing the Brown-Yale tilt, allowed Clare Curtin, Eli tackle, to run with the ball after a Yale kick had been blocked. The contention of the Bruins was that the Yale player picked up the oval behind the goal-line and thus deprived them of a legitimate safety. The other faux pas was the incident in the Army-Illinois contest, when Referee Dan Kelly refused to allow an Army place-kick because the holder had both knees on the ground...
...about all color blind" and can distinguish the colors of gay bait "only as various shades of grey, precisely as a color-blind person would." that fish can scarcely see anything below the level of their heads, that the pupils of fish eyes are almost always round, but never oval, that fish pupils contract only a little in strong light, that fish have no eyelids and no tears...
...gratify." Yet she waited out the long days of his illness, lonely in her cold virginity, never regarding the torment of delirious notes in which he accused her of unfaithfulness. She kept faith to the dying poet long after he coughed out his last feeble breath, holding her oval white carnelian in his hand. She had understood his request that her last letter be laid in his coffin. He died. "All that grieves me now," she wrote pathetically to Fanny Keats, "is that I was not with him, and so near...
...only a skimpy 150,000 get through to the second race, which turned out to be the most exciting of all Harmsworth Cup events. This time, his motors warmed up beforehand, Scott-Paine managed to get across the line first. At the first turn in the 7-mi. oval course Miss America X swerved past him. Thereafter Gar Wood patently tantalized Scott-Paine. Miss Britain III, leaping from the water every half mile, would inch up on Miss America X. Miss America X would spurt ahead, then relax. Neither boat broke records Miss America X averaged 86.937 statute m.p.h., Miss...
...faster than prices. Thousands of employers signed the agreement quickly, heedlessly, sprinted to the post office to collect their free allotment of "NRA Member-We Do Our Part" advertising material. To each employer was given one large Blue Eagle placard, two small ones, five large square stickers, ten small oval stickers. And thousands of employers anxiously pondered the code, wondering how they could pay their factory help 40? per hour for a 35-hour week or their office help $12 or more per week for a 40-hour week and still stay in business...