Word: passing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forward pass plays tried by the Crimson against the Red and Blue there were enough potential receivers scattered about the field to reveal the foundations of a sound and workable pass offense. But a lack of finish, a tendency on the part of the receiver to fight the ball, spoiled the effectiveness of this mode of gaining ground. With greater attention to detail, the Harvard passing game should become a threat against the Blue of Yale...
Surrounded by intimates in the chamber music room of Carnegie Hall, Governor Smith waited for the last (as he had thought) Hoover hour to pass. Then he spoke his final words to "my radio audience." It was perhaps the best speech of his whole campaign; a review of his own executive record, a call to civic duty, and thanks to all who had helped him in his "long, hard job." His final attack was: "The American people will never stand for a dictator any more than they are today satisfied with a policy of silence." His final appeal...
...full dinner pail. He worked it until he had it all worn out and when this campaign opened up he quietly went up into the attic and had a little piece of chamois cloth and was getting ready to polish it all up and see if he could not pass it around again...
Married. Alexander Szabo, for the 12th time; at Budapest, where he is a famed actor. "God made me to be a husband," said he to reporters, "and all my wives helped me to pass my days agreeably...
...Pittsburgh, last week reported that he had found a good use for beryllium, one of the rare earth metals. By substituting beryllium oxide for soda lime silicate he has produced a harder, more refractory, more transparent glass than the usual kind. It lets the sun's ultraviolet light pass through...