Word: seamed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that it meant that the Indoor Polo Association met and decided that instead of an inflated, small-size basketball, indoor polo players will hereafter play with a new ball, 4½ in. thick like the old one, but of a sponge rubber composition, leather-covered with only one seam and without the lacings that made the old ball swerve crazily when you hit a long drive. The association also decided that although no indoor polo player has ever been good enough to have a ten-goal handicap, Winston Guest was too good to have anything less...
...present," said Premier Ferguson, "the seams have been located by drill to a length of one mile, and a width of one-half mile, and of an established thickness averaging 18 ft. This in itself constitutes a reserve of several million tons, and it is in every way likely that a seam of such thickness will be found to be more extensive. It is anticipated that further drilling will prove the deposit to be truly a large and important one. The present ten holes merely constitute a start in our exploratory program...
Last week a seam-faced little man on crutches moved up and down hot Manhattan streets. Every so often he stopped a pedestrian, asked questions. "Do you think it right for girls to appear bare-legged in the office?" "Do you favor Mayor Walker for re-election?" Answers received, a photograph posed for, the little man would smile happily and hobble on. It was a new role for him. From 1919 to 1927 he, William David ("Ernest Willie") Upshaw, had been the interviewed, not the interviewer, as he hitched into the offices and halls of Washington's Capitol. Then...
Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, left his cigarets and matches at a Londonderry colliery pit mouth, put on overalls, descended torch in hand to the lowest coal seam. Said he to the miners: "I was born a monarch not because I chose to be but because it had to be. It is as necessary for me to work as it is for any other man. Your Prince of Wales and I are workers...
...great national oil restriction program (TIME, April 8 et seq.) opened another seam last week when Oklahoma operators decided that the sky was the limit on Oklahoma production. Prairie Oil & Gas and Sinclair Oil Corp. were listed as anti-restriction leaders, with the approach of the automobile and gas-consuming season as underlying motive for increased production. Oklahoma has had a proration agreement with an umpire (one Ray Collins) to enforce it, but oilmen turned baseball-men, cried Kill the Umpire, abolished the proration system...