Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past games the Harvard team has suffered from lack of team coordination to give it scoring drive and thrust. In the game last week with Haverford, which the Harvard five won 32 to 19, the play of the winners was streaky, not a steady, driving style of play. Last Wednesday, when the Harvard five annexed another win, this at the expense of the Brown club, which also went down in a 39 to 19 score, lack of team play was again noticeable...
Died. Adelaide Scarcez Hermann, 79, "Queen of Magic," relict of Alexandre Hermann "The Great," famed conjurer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. As his assistant she frequently evaporated into space, received many a sword thrust, knew how he caught the marked bullets when ten U. S. troopers shot at him. Jesse Lasky got his theatrical start as their manager. After Hermann died on board their silver bath-tubbed private car, purchased from Lily Langtry, she formed her own show, in which once worked Buster Keaton...
...time, disregarding the meanwhile all other mass interest stories that may come along. For over five weeks the Culbertson-Lenz bridge rodeo held its position as the most consistent daily front page story. Then it stopped. But before city editors had the time to cease yawning, they had thrust at them what promises to be one of the most stupendous news story of the year...
...rate of 80 per day, the didactic Frenchman in striped trousers, black jacket, white tie and suede-topped buttoned shoes wagged his short forefinger at the President in high-laced shoes and conservative business suit, making hotly such points as that France will not stand for having another Moratorium thrust forward from the U. S. "suddenly and brutally."? Equally blunt was Mr. Hoover, according to some reports, in challenging the French thesis of "Security before Disarmament," insisting on "real disarmament" when the Disarmament Conference meets...
Across one eyebrow ran a scar. Booth's eyebrow was scarred as the result of a false thrust in a stage duel...