Word: seesawed
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...golfers a chance to rest, play was resumed. Alliss found his stride quickly, led by four strokes at the end of the fifth hole. By the fourteenth Hagen had squared the match, then took the lead at the next hole. From there on it was a seesaw: At lunch Alliss led by a stroke. One up at the long (460 yd.) sixth in the afternoon, Hagen played his second shot into the woods, skimmed his third between two lines of spectators to plump his ball a yard from the cup, made a birdie four. After holding a lead...
...control of the 72nd Congress continued to seesaw, Democrats, led by Chairman Jouett Shouse, continued to claim a full House majority of their own without insurgent Republican aid. They placed a heavy stake on Kentucky where a new law delayed the count which they hoped would put their party across and elevate Representative John Nance Garner of Texas to the Speakership...
Last week's principal discovery was a onetime Brigadier General of the English Army washing dishes in a Quebec hotel. While he scrubbed, Charles Henry Gough could ponder a seesaw career in which he had at various times been custodian of drumsticks, sabres, human lives, counters of lingerie, saxophones, dishrags...
...Irregular Republicans thus became the fulcrum of another Senate seesaw, and the tax fight changed from a question of total reduction to several questions, on what reductions shall be made...
...deadlocks, a Harvard, and then a Dartmouth victory, preceded five straight Crimson wins which led up to the break of 1912. The contest in this year, the last before relations were resumed in 1922, was one of those seesaw affairs, with both teams fighting bitterly for an advantage, which finally came to Harvard through the talented toe of C. E. Brickley '15. Something in the way the Dartmouth forwards handled Brickley after one of his other attempts at a field goal which went wide of its mark, or a desire to put Cornell on the Crimson schedule...