Word: rebounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fellow-Student Jacques as her lover. She hoped big things for Jacques, but when he felt the call of the mild and returned to the provinces to be a petty lawyer, she cut him out of her system. Edmond, son of a potent international banker, caught her on the rebound and asked her to marry him, though he could give her only a banker's love. Denise took him, hoped she could make him into a world-force. But his father thought one in the family was enough, kept him subordinate as long as he could...
Energetic Editor Swanson went after big-name contributors. Many of them appeared only once; sometimes their contributions would be brief or palpably second-rate. Occasionally ? as in the case of Donald Ogden Stewart's Rebound and Noel Coward's Private Lives which had already been produced on the stage ? they were comparatively stale. But the names on the cover, names like Alec Waugh. George Jean Nathan, Stephen Vincent Benet, Wallace Irwin, were impressive...
...strongest winds over the basin are from the northwest, and owing to the width of the basin these winds frequently make the water so rough that the waves rebound from the wall to a considerable distance. This condition has been found very unsatisfactory by boating and rowing interests, and these individuals and associations have been strongly desirous of an improvement in the basin as regards rowing conditions. The treatment of the new shoreline is expected to break up the waves and materially decrease the cross-chop existing at present...
Harvard's third line started the second period with Hale replacing deGive at goal. In less than two minutes, Salton stall accounted for the Crimson's third score on a rebound from Pell. After the first line had returned to the game, Wood duplicated his first period play and added another goal to the total. Late in the period, Thomson and Hrones broke through the Harvard defense to push the puck past Hale for the only M. I. T. score. Two minutes later Baldwin took a pass from Putnam and tallied the last goal of the period. The third period...
...juxtaposition on the same bill of "Rebound" and "The Magnificent Lie" invites comparison of the work of the respective actresses, one of whom is gaining popularity with each successive production, while the other has patently passed her zenith and is definitely on the wane...