Word: see-saw
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...see-saw fortunes of the Chinese Nationalist government, teetering dangerously for months, swung high again last week. The so-called bandit-communist armies that have menaced all government in the central provinces were comparatively quiescent. Torrential floods which have interrupted military operations against the northern leaders, subsided. Nationalist military despatches proudly announced 20 battles in one week. Best of all. Nationalist troops captured Tsinan, capital of Shantung province, in a pitched battle. Northern troops fled back toward the Yellow River leaving quantities of arms and munitions behind them. Optimistic correspondents in Shanghai announced that the capture of Tsinan...
...See-Saw Game...
...Northeastern team, until then completely overwhelmed, rallied and threatened a come-back. It's steady teamwork broke up into individual plays, marked by long shots and see-saw runs, from one end of the floor to the other. Northeastern's scoring was evenly distributed no one player being outstanding...
...51st Brigade, Field Artillery, defeated the 1931 polo team Saturday night by a score of 6 to 5 1-2 in a see-saw match played at the Common-wealth Armory...
...other two major sport encounters both resulted in decisive victories. Harvard took the annual Commencement baseball series in straight games, slugging 'strength proving the chief factor in deciding the issue in favor of the Cambridge ball players. The first game which was played in New Haven was a see-saw affair, the final Crimson run being delayed until the eighth inning. The second and final game of the series was a slugfest with the University batters poling 17 hits for 15 runs while Yale was able to amass only five runs off the offerings of Booth and Cutts. Yale turned...