Word: scoopful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they are and to determine the boundaries of a fair serve (between the fault and pass line)-see diagram. Three walls are of concrete, the fourth is of wire netting to protect the spectators from a ball that travels 100 miles an hour. Object of the game is to scoop the ball (either in the air or on first bounce) as it bounds off the front wall, and, in a split second, return it so that it will be in a difficult position for the opposing player (or players) to catch. Points are scored in the same manner as tennis...
Always interesting to aeronauts, scoop-up-&-drop mail service attracted the fancy of the 75th Congress, which directed the Post Office to call for last week's bids. Most popular scooping arrangement is a grapple hook dangling from the plane by a rope to catch another rope (with the mail sack attached) suspended between two posts. To deliver sacks without bursting them, experimenters have used nets, parachutes, hinged rods on the bottom of the sack which absorb the shock. The Post Office left the scooping method to the airlines, subject to approval by the Civil Aeronautics Authority. Deadline...
...wish to congratulate you on your scoop over New Mexico newspapers; none having yet learned of Carrie Tingley's demise nor tardiness...
...neck. By the time they had plugged the hole with a piece of pine, the submarine was resting on the bottom of the river. They cranked it across the Shrewsbury, made it crawl obediently through the mud and, as a demonstration for skeptical townspeople, even made it scoop up old tin cans and clamshells. It was, says Simon Lake, the first submarine that really performed. Rivals have claimed the same thing for their inventions...
That Dixie Davis was not only leaving prison regularly to dally with a doxie, but doing so with the connivance of two Manhattan detectives, who, supposedly, were by court order taking him to have his tonsils treated, was the substance of the week's biggest scoop, scored by the New York Mirror (Hearst). Free-Lance Correspondent Robert Chulsky, 21, an employe in a building near where Hope Dare lived, tipped off the Mirror and Photographer Smooke. Day after the Mirror story broke, to the acute embarrassment of District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey, other dailies picked it up. New York...