Word: sided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...season is the increasing prevalence of wide-open play, more pronounced this year than ever before. Almost every major college has at least one better-than-average runner, one better-than-average passer. The forward pass, written into the rules in 1906, wandered around as a hit-or-miss side line for a quarter of a century. Now, since it has become the darling of the Rules Committee, the pass has developed into a major technique-classified into spot, crossover, alley, flat aerials and many another specialty. That football may eventually evolve into a sort of basketball is evidenced...
Thus Man's Hope is a new kind of book, at once a literal report of the Loyalist side of the Civil War and a novel tracing the fates of some 20 leading characters who fight in it. It combines vivid journalistic observation with extraordinary imaginative flights, consequently stands out, not only as a novel but as the best piece of reporting that has come out of the Spanish Civil War. And as such it illustrates Malraux's theory of fiction-that the real news of the modern world can be better told in novels than in newspapers...
...sort of Windy City misdemeanor. Harvard first dented the score column, however, without any such add. It was early in the second period, after Austic Harding had relieved Frank Foley at tailback. First Harding just missed confection on a pass to Torb Macdonald; then with Torb on the tossing side, Harding took the business end himself and dove over the line...
...expected, Captain Hamity, halfback Sol Sherman, and Wasem were the enemy standouts. Speedster John Davenport was a disappointment. This group tried every sort of "sleeper" play; once there were two "sleepers" on each side and another lying down way over on the sidelines. In other words, there were only six men who were not "sleepers." The Chicagoans even tried this trick stuff in their own end zone, where they spent much of the afternoon...
...writing boards in New Lecture Hall and Sever 11 teeter from side to side like a see-saw as each line of notes is taken...