Word: pinging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Steel Front. Inside the Republic plant near which the bloodshed had taken place, newshawks found that some 1,000 non-strikers were not having a bad time, playing baseball and ping-pong in off hours. But Chicago's Mayor Edward J. Kelly acted to end their cloistered life. He wrote Republic Steel a polite letter declaring that the men were living in quarters (a wire mill) not designed for residence, an infraction of the city's health and housing ordinances. They would have to be evacuated within 48 hours. When the time expired, the company shunted 21 Pullman...
...Dartmouth, Harry Jr. roomed off-campus in the same yellowish house as Footballer Phil Spartacus Conti. Tall, slender, dark-haired, quiet, he got "gentle-men's" grades in his studies, became Phi Gamma Delta ping-pong champion, was rated a good beer drinker. Over the mantel in his disorderly room was the legend: "Commend a wedded life but keep thyself a bachelor...
...conscious, reactionary Southerner. Clan-conscious he undoubtedly is, but he says he is as conscious of his forbears' failings as of their fame. cites an Irish murderer and an opponent of Patrick Henry to prove it. "Even the best of us," says he. "have ancestors who were not ping-pong players...
...Beaver athletic director stated that the game as played under Intercollegiate rules was a little too rough on the girls. As a compensation, willingness was expressed to engage the boys in several other forms of play, ping-pong...
...number two position, he has compiled the best record of any singles man. Hubert Hauck holds down berth number three. Like Dorson, he is a good retriever, and his matches are generally filled with long rallies. Hauck has also made a name for himself in the world of University Ping Pong...