Word: rebounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third stanza Captain Chase, of the Clubmen, former Harvard leader, put his team in the running again when he picked up his own rebound and sent it past Ellis when Putnam, skating leisurely around, failed to check. This shot added the necessary spark to the battle and from then on until the end the game was replete with thrills and spills. Harvard clung tenaciously to its slim lead fighting to hold back the sallies of Hunt, Chase, and Hilliard...
Quick on the rebound is the Nationalist Government of President Chiang Kaishek. Less than a month ago the Nationalists were fighting desperately for their very existence; no one knew who would rule China from one day to the next. Last week, their authority temporarily reestablished, the Nationalists dusted their jackets, straightened their horn-rimmed spectacles, strutted again. Cocky Cheng Ting ("C. T.") Wang, Nationalist Foreign Minister, blandly disregarding riot and rebellion, announced that with the first of the year he would abolish the right of extraterritoriality in China, i.e. the right of foreign residents in China to be tried...