Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...king, Mr. Karn deliberated for several minutes. Then he made up his mind that Mr. Burnstine was not false carding. He returned to his own hand and achieved a finesse with the ten of diamonds which earned him his contract, a little slam and the first big swing for his team, 1,430 points. In a sense, it was the hand that decided the match. As the Burnstine team fell behind, they gambled for long chances, fell behind even further. After five hours play, Harold Stirling Vanderbilt and his teammates had won the Cup, with 5,845 points, an average...
...Boston Arena, packed to the rafters with his noisy admirers, Al Smith, turning from 1928 to 1932, tried to swing his faithful but disgruntled following behind the Roosevelt-Garner ticket. Putting aside rancorous memories he referred several times to his old friend "Frank Roosevelt." He admitted he was not "satisfied" with the Chicago convention but argued that the "salvation of the country" now depended upon a Democratic victory. He pounded the Republicans with sarcasm, outlawed bigotry as an issue, again & again set off thunderous applause and cheering...
...wealth of excellent reading material on a certain section of the field covered by his course make two meetings a week rather than three sufficient for that period. And the number of courses in which, as a result, lectures are industriously shunned, testifies to the need for a swing towards fewer, and better lectures...
...running high in favor of a victory for the home team, particularly as the Bruins are in a fine condition after a semi-breather against. Tufts last weekend. The Brown team had some difficulty in clicking earlier in the season, but the Yale game marked apparently the up-swing of the tide. The Providence players will be at practically full strength against Harvard in this Saturday's big clash...
Lacking the snap and jauntiness which the underdog Dartmouth team evinced, the Crimson eleven disappointed its followers by getting into the swing only once, and that just after Pescosolido's superb 93-yard touchdown runback. The Harvard squad was crippled, to be sure, in the second half, but that cannot serve as an excuse for the poor showing put on as a whole by Casey's players, even in the face of a Big Green team which refused to be beaten...