Word: ties
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stadium in London this summer for the season's last meet, the annual contest with the forces of Oxford and Cambridge. Milt Green captured honors in the meet with his two first places, while Bob Hall added another first to the Harvard total, but the meet ended in a tie, with six firsts for the English teams and six firsts for the invading Americans...
...music which accompanies these exercises, all by Irving Berlin, contains such likely hits as Top Hat, White Tie and Tails; Cheek to Cheek and Isn't This a Lovely Day. The story shows Astaire as the U. S. star of a London revue trying hard to further a romance which begins when he keeps Miss Rogers awake and which is impeded only by her stubborn and illogical belief that he is her best friend's husband. Otherwise pleasantly negligible, the narrative has at least the merit of giving a cast of skilled comedians (Edward Everett Horton, Helen Broderick, Erik Rhodes...
...host accidentally hit him between the eyes with a stone from his slingshot. Worried because he had drawn the blood of his father's guest, little Amir Fuaz childishly made Carl Raswan his blood-brother in a desert ceremony which pledged man and boy to a life-long tie. Amir Fuaz grew up, became leader of the Ruala, respected his pledge even when, years later, he discovered his European blood-brother in the ranks of enemy raiders and thieves...
Hiestand broke 96 birds, enough to win in some years but only good enough last week to put him in a tie for third place, which he won after a shoot-off. Winner was a 51 -year-old Seabord Air Line Railway conductor from Tallahassee, Fla., named Jordan B. Royall. No novice, Royall has been shooting for nine years, has been a Florida champion for four of the last five. Nonetheless, partly because he had never entered the Grand American before, few shooters at Vandalia knew who he was until, firing from 20 yd., he broke 98 targets...
...delegates to the second annual Japan-U. S. Student Conference, they had been asked to appear in kimonos. Since most of them wear Western dresses at home, they had spent a good part of their trip across the Pacific learning, for the first time in their lives, to tie the big, brocaded sashes which traditionally girdle Japanese kimonos...