Word: pivots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game so far this year, Cunningham being out for the entire season with a broken ankle suffered a week ago, and Gildea just recovering from a severe aggravation sustained in the first few days of practice. Faxon, originally, was a tackle but was shifted to the pivot post when both Cunningham and Gildea were lost to the squad. Only Captain Ticknor and Hallowell remain as centers...
...Boston Arena, countless couples pivot and tremble in a din of sobbing cornets and wailing saxophones. . Hollow-eyed and ghastly in the lurid light, they dance day after day. A marathon is on. They must not stop. A pot of gold is at the end of this insane rainbow. Days elapse and a jaded couple poses exhausted and physically shattered before the eyes of a nation to receive a purse of money...
Such a decision pleased nobody. Ralph Budd, G. N. President, Charles Donnelly. N. P. President, declared that the G. N. P. had to have the C. B. & Q. to reach Chicago from Minneapolis, that it was the eastern pivot of the whole merger. Sena tors and congressmen from the northwest flayed the juncture of these two roads, insisted that it would reduce competition in that territory to the vanishing point...
...with a triumphant staccato. In a high-ceiled inner room overlooking Trinity Church's grimy spire, an elderly man with thin white hair, a well-trimmed white beard parted in the middle, good solid shoulders and a small paunch, sat bolt upright in a stiff high-backed chair. The pivot of all the commotion, he was intensely busy?and intensely happy. Within a few days, God willing, he would become the eleventh Chief Justice...
...Dartmouth goal. Stubbs' opening period score was a terrific shot from around the blue line; then came almost identical plays for scores by the alternate centers. Garrison and Wood, about six minutes apart in the second canto. Both plays were similar for on both occasions the Harvard pivot man stole the puck away from Captain Hal Andres and then advanced towards the goal having the Sophomore Hawkes at his mercy...