Word: throws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exhumed variety show might be just what worried movie exhibitors needed. If the Palace's new "8 Acts 8" (featured on a bill with a cinematic weak sister called Canadian Pacific) could make the grade at the box office, the RKO chain stood ready to throw vaudeville into its movie houses around the U.S., and other chains might follow suit...
Citation v. Coaltown. Only last month Jimmy Jones said that "Citation could roll up Coaltown into a little ball and throw him away." Ben isn't that sure, or he makes believe he isn't. "Horses change," he hedges. "Coaltown is ten-times better than he was last year...
Meanwhile, Shanghai's Nationalist defenders continued to rule the city with a trembling iron hand. Firing squads continued public executions of fifth columnists, black marketeers and other culprits. On outlying roads, hundreds of laborers sweated to throw up machine-gun emplacements and earthworks. In the confusion, however, many of the earthworks were built facing not the Communists, but one another...
...wasn't a very successful move. Ira Godin held the Kaydets to five singles and struck out 14 of them. In the seventh inning, when the visitors bunched three of their hits, a nice throw by Chuck Roche cut down Galiffa, who was trying to go from first to third on a single. A force at second and a fly to left got Godin out of trouble. Otherwise he relied on the strikeout weapon to preserve order...
Yale won its fifteenth straight dual track meet Saturday in New Haven when it crushed the Crimson varsity 111 to 29. Howie Reed's hammer throw of 159 feet 6 1/2 inches representing Harvard's only clear win in the fifty-third clash with the Blue...