Word: pass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most annoying play in football is when a winning touchdown is canceled by a penalty. Tennessee's Wood last week threw a pass to Duncan for a touchdown against Duke in the first quarter, but someone was offside. Therefore when the final whistle blew, Coach Wallace Wade had succeeded in preserving unblemished his record of never having a team defeated on Duke's "Homecoming Day." Score...
...could buy. As contestants in what is one of the most unprofitable as well as one of the riskiest of sports, rodeo cowboys average about $3,000 a year in prize money, spend most of it on traveling expenses, clothes, entry fees, hospital bills. Few, therefore, can afford to pass up the Madison Square Garden rodeo, which offers the season's biggest total prize money ($38,000), augmented this year by the entry fees in all events...
...year 1822 a high-minded little group of men led by an M. P. from Galway, Richard ("Humanity") Martin, gathered at Old Slaughter's Coffee House in London, and formed the first Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. In the same year they induced Parliament to pass a bill to punish persons who ''wantonly and cruelly" beat or ill-treated horses, mares, geldings, mules, asses, oxen, cows, heifers, steers, sheep...
...enough (108 ft.) for eight traffic lanes, rests its 18,400,000-Ib. on 32 caissons, sunk to bedrock, 102 ft. below water level. It is so delicately balanced that no more than two 100 h.p. motors are required to lift its huge jaws skyward for occasional vessels to pass in & out. of the Chicago River. Some Chicagoans were disconcerted by the two right angle turns at its southern approach, with only a four-lane highway on Randolph Street for traffic midcity bound. And some complained of bottlenecks getting off & on the main outer artery north & south. But these were...
...second, and once in the last, the Jayvees were never threatened. Ed Robinson, quarterback for the Jayvees, personally accounted for 12 of the points. In the first period he crossed the goal line after a 12-yard run and in the last few minutes he snagged an opponent pass to score again...