Word: slid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crack! Thrown by the Boston centerfielder, the ball hit the catcher's mitt in the same split-second that Travis Jackson of the New York Giants slid for the plate. An instant later, a cloud of dust, settling slowly in the bright September sun, revealed the emphatic figure of Umpire George Magerkurth leaning toward the plate with his hand pointed toward the ground, palm down...
...side of the river, saw Navy jump off to a quick start, then yield the lead to California. Urchins in rowboats at the two-mile mark saw Navy and California battling for the lead with Columbia third. The yacht flotilla at the finish shrieked wildly as the first shell slid across the line. It was Washington's- whose smart Coxswain Bob Moch had timed a long sprint perfectly through the last mile-with California a length and a half behind, Navy third, and a boatload of Columbia sophomores fourth...
Down to a three-point at Los Angeles' Union Air Terminal one day last week slid a little Boeing pursuit plane with a hood over its single cockpit. Out of it, grinning broadly, jumped a chunky, bald pilot who had just made the first completely "blind" flight across...
...world's greatest living cavalryman sat reading in his high-ceilinged London study one noon last week. Suddenly the book slid from his hands, his chin sagged to his chest and Field Marshal Sir Edmund Hynman Allenby, first Viscount Allenby of Megiddo* and of Felixstowe, was dead...
...America is going to be saved. As the bulbous defenders of our liberties meet to take stock of the state of their organization, all considerations of the twin menace of Russia and pacifism are overshadowed by a genuine American tragedy: the membership of the D. A. R. has slid downhill like a 1929 ticker tape, with 25,000 fewer on the rolls than eight years...