Word: slammed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baton Rouge, La., undefeated, untied, unscored-on Tennessee, still the No. 1 popular choice to represent the East in the Rose Bowl, smashed a slam-bang Louisiana State team that had previously trounced Holy Cross, Rice, Loyola and Vanderbilt. Tennessee...
...Devastating Consequences!" In international politics, Sweden has no wish nor much chance to make a grand slam. Her wealth and her small but efficiently equipped Army make her a national leader in the so-called Oslo Group (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, The Netherlands, Finland, Belgium-Luxembourg Trade Union) which overlaps the so-called Northern Neutrals (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland). These groups pursue a ceaseless European activity for lowered customs barriers, mobilization of Europe's remaining moral forces against aggression, and until lately they were the energetic champions of the League of Nations, now admittedly defunct...
...gone to town like Yankee Doodle. He has given Too Many Girls the genuine youthfulness of such Abbott comedies as Brother Rat and What a Life, and for the same reason: because it is full of natural, exuberant young people. He has given it a headlong pace, a slam-bang zest and zip. Too Many Girls is in no one respect outstanding, but it doesn't need to be: it is simply one of those right-as-rain shows that don't stall at the start, break down in the middle, or run out of gas before...
Still silent remained Il Duce's own paper Il Popolo d'ltalia (to which all Fascist Party members must subscribe), unwilling yet to attack Joseph Stalin or to slam the Moscow-Berlin Axis. There will be time enough for that when it becomes certain that Joseph Stalin is going to thwart Benito Mussolini's ambitions in the Balkans...
...have Frenchmen-René Lacoste in 1926-27, Henri Cochet in 1928. Nearest an Australian ever came to the U. S. title was in 1933, when steady, sturdy Jack Crawford (French, English and Australian champion that year) was nosed out of a tennis grand slam in the final...