Word: setup
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game today will be no setup for Harvard as it has been in past years, for the Terriers went on a conditioning five-game southern trip, have six hitters over a .300 average, and an ace pitcher in Vincent Sandercock...
About 270,000,000 people, nearly six times the population of the British Isles, live in British India and last week they were given an entirely new setup of their provincial governments. The province called "Bombay Presidency" is by itself two-and-a-half times the size of England and five times more populous than Scotland. Thus a change of greatest magnitude was performed last week at New Delhi by the Viceroy & Governor General of India, an able Scottish banker, His Excellency the Most Hon. the Marquess of Linlithgow. Instead of saying presto-chango, the Viceroy caused his weekly Gazette...
...running, and if they do the expected and topple Cornell in their final League game, they will be in a third place tie with the Harvard-Yale winner. But the Big Red has been getting tougher all season, and Johnny O'Brien and his lads have no setup in store for them...
Said Senator Copeland: "I am sorry to see him go. ... Of course I scolded him . . . but he wasn't to blame. . . . It was the system that was wrong, not Mr. Vidal. He was director on paper. Actually, he had no authority. Secretary of Commerce Roper had a setup in which three men had collateral authority. One was Mr. Vidal. The other two were Rex Martin and Carroll Cone, assistant directors...
Coming back strongly after their only defeat of the season at the hands of Lowell on Wednesday, Adams showed a new brand of basketball which completely tied up the high scoring offensive power of the Bellboys and gave them setup after setup for scoring shots...