Word: snares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the encounter was filled with sloppy play, the crowd estimated as the largest this season, was constantly on edge as the Mitchellmen made seemingly impossible catches in the field. In the third frame, Owen twice raced deep into right field to snare line-drives, destined for extra bases. Mal McTernen made two equally brilliant circus catches in the center garden...
...this campaign," declared New Deal-hating Publisher Paul Block last week in a signed editorial in which he tried to bring religion into the campaign by asserting that President Roosevelt had drafted New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman to run for re-election in an effort to snare the State's Jewish vote...
...part in the U. S. Presidential campaign. For a month the Political Priest had had a candidate in the field-North Dakota's Representative William Lemke of the Union Party, named for Coughlin's National Union for Social Justice. Last week he turned up in Cleveland to snare Townsend votes...
...Wanger) is an attempt to commercialize the publicity which fan magazines and travel agencies have lavished on a colony of luxury hotels perched on the rim of an extinct volcano in the desert 125 miles from Los Angeles. The narrative concerns the efforts of Joan Smyth (Frances Langford) to snare a rich husband (David Xiven) in order to repay her father (Sir Guy Standing) for his sacrifices in earning a living as a gambler to provide her with the luxuries of a fashionable school. She ends by marrying Slim (Smith Ballew), owner of a dude ranch...
...four years before he saw England again. Besides his job as ship's doctor he had the un-naval post of naturalist, and intended to keep a weather eye out for Mollusca, Acalephae, Cirripedia, epizoa, Radiata and such. He rigged up a home-made tow-net to snare his specimens, soon ran afoul of the navigation officers, who complained that the net slowed the ship's way, took to dumping his catch overboard when his back was turned. As the long voyage wore on, Huxley found that such setbacks, like the difficulty of peering through his microscope...