Word: pinging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suggestions have been made that ping pong would also provide interest but as yet no set has appeared. Such slow and pacific games as checkers and chess have not even been considered...
...sword sharpened for the Prince's neck and the mob crying for compassion. Princess Turandot, icy white, on a Palace balcony, signals to the executioners to proceed. An unknown prince, thrilled by her beauty, is determined to win her or die by the selfsame enigmas. The second act: Ping, Pang and Pong, comic ministers, jabber of the seven thousand centuries of China's glorious past, of Turandot's 13 suitors, headless now, who had dared desire her. A square out side the Palace with steps upon steps mounting the depth of the stage, the bearded emperor high...
...Sidney S. Lenz, they say, who brought auction bridge to the Western world. Originally a box-manufacturer in Michigan, he had tried all indoor sports and wearied of them through sheer dexterity. He had bowled and become a champion. The ping and pong of pingpong, in all their manifold trajectories, were so simple to his touch that it became a bore for him to play with most people, unless he had a book to read at the same time. His bureau drawers were cluttered with medals for billiards, his shelves with cups for golf. He went off around the world...
...that the enormous popularity of the game has injected into college athletic. But we have never seen it properly blamed for the extravagant sentimentality which is associated with the thing called college spirit. How could one die for dear old Rutgers except in an intercollegiate football game? Baseball, track, ping-pong, checkers--these hardly call for the lethal effort. One doesn't feel like debating or swimming "for God, for Country and for Yale." It is intercollegiate football alone that brings the rah, rah business so close to tears and mush...
...Battle. The old man's son, Mr. Stanley Dollar, offered the Ship- ping Board $1,125,000 for each of the five boats now under lease to the Pacific Mail. He offered one-third spot cash, two-thirds in 4¼% mortgages. He guaranteed to run the boats regularly across the Pacific for, at least five years...