Word: stall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fine or banish from the field managers or players who 'stall' for time...
...noise made by the dogs was loud and horrible. A small, stupid child, like many who attended the dog show, reached out a paw toward a vast belligerent St. Bernard who was lounging in his sawdust covered stall, swathed in a towel lest the slobber from his mouth should stain his sleek and tonsured fur. The St. Bernard lurched bellowing at the child; a collie barked at the St. Bernard; an Airedale yelped at the collie; soon, all the dogs were in a noisy fury. The people whose business it was to care for the dogs were never disconcerted; they...
John Tudor '29, I. W.; Captain J. P. Chase '28, c.; F. R. G. Giddens '28, r. stall '28 played on the defense with Joseph Morrill '28 as goal gurad...
Aboard the City of Eureka, ship that sailed from Manhattan last week, a well groomed heifer whisked her tail; a bull, morose, fastened in his stall, braced his feet; 13 other high-grade bulls and heifers stirred uneasily to the vibration of the ship. They, blessed by Father Lazarus of the Orthodox Greek Church in Manhattan, were on their way to Athens, where they are intended to stimulate and improve (with the co-operation of the Near East Relief), the native animal husbandry...
Died. John R. Thompson, 62, originator of the "one-arm chair" restaurants; of heart disease; at Lake Forest, Ill. He started with a nickel coffee stall during the Chicago World's Fair (1893); lately served 53,000,000 meals annually throughout the U. S.* Died. Guy Eastman Tripp, 62, since 1912 Chairman of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.; in Manhattan; from complications following an intestinal operation. He recently attracted widespread interest by his plan for the electrification of the entire country under one mammoth system for all railroads, street cars, factories, farms and houses. Died. Jerome Klapka Jerome...