Word: spheroid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Individually Austie Harding and Joe Gardolla stood out, and both probably annexed starting berths against Yale by their work. While disappointing with his passes, tailback Harding nevertheless did the hardest running on the field and three times advanced the spheroid to within inches of scoring on fine runs. Gardella continued to outshine all the Crimson pass defenders, which was a none too difficult feat Saturday, and also had the honor of making the first two first downs...
...baseball season. One hundred years ago this spring a man named Abner Doubleday laid out the first baseball diamond on the Common at Cooperstown, New York. In the century since Doubleday baseball has risen to a position second to none in the sporting world. Every American child has smacked spheroid with hickory from the time he able to coordinate. Even the French and German papers run the American major league scores each day. Babe Ruth and Dizzy Dean are probably as well known as anybody in America, both here and abroad...
...mamillary body, a small spheroid organ which is one of the three principal parts of the hypothalamus. It lies at one corner of the hypothalamus and picks up impulses from the hypothalamus and transmits them...
Harvard's cork-capped pursuers of the willow spheroid will cavort against Army's trio on Thursday in the Inter-collegiate polo championship. Army has won the Townsend Cup two years in succession and is favored to win again...
...that sometimes Eros varied in brightness over a period of 5¼ hr. If this was the period of its rotation, the variation might have been due to one side being much darker than the other -or to the end-over-end spinning of an, object which was not spheroid like big planets but an irregular, elongated fragment...