Word: play-by-play
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Result of the Acheson-Leith-Ross conversations were to be transmitted play-by-play to the President. He was expected to ask no less than a lump payment of 50% of the debt. The British talked of offering 10%. Equally important were to be the discussions as to what kind of dollars and pounds any settlement was to be made in. Both sides were hopeful that the (See col. 3) two great off-gold nations, sitting head-to-head by themselves, might come nearer to an understanding on international currency stabilization than was possible at the many-tongued...
...Grid-o-Graph is already owned by the Union and an experienced operator is being procured by the 1936 Union Committee to take charge of it. A radio will be placed in the lower common room in conjunction with the machine, so both a visual and aural play-by-play story of the game will be available...
...play-by-play score of the Chicago meetings indicated that the unions did most of the proposing. The management executives sat tight, batted the proposals back in the following manner...
...Yale-Harvard game in 30 years; and J. Murray Mitchell who was to have been host to a large luncheon-&-game party at Cambridge. (He had their tickets in his pocket.) But all gathered good-humoredly about the radios in the smoking room and afterdeck to hear the play-by-play reports. When the Hochheimer was gone the drinkers turned to rum, were finally reduced to gin before the S. S. Pan America returned to Manhattan having, as Author Elliott White Springs said, "sailed a wonderful game." Banker Harvey D. Gibson observed: "We didn't bargain...
...Scoreboard, which resembled a baseball play-by-play tally, official scorers -U. S. Army officers-marked the hands dealt to each contestant, the number of tricks taken by each team. The scoreboard was out of the players' sight; but they did not need to see it. Sniggers and snorts from the audience, when someone played the wrong card or tried to finesse, were as explanatory as a peek at an opponent's hand. Observers wondered whether, by imposing strict rules of silence on spectators, or by enclosing the players in soundproof booths, bridge could...