Word: tossing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back last week when the 25 potent Scripps-Howard papers throughout the land frontpaged an editorial entitled "Give Us Alfred E. Smith." Excerpts: "Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt possess in common one dominating trait. Faced in a pinch with political consequences, they yield. Between the two it is a toss up. . . The nomination of Roosevelt is possible but not certain. Between Roosevelt and the White House there now stands a man endowed in the very highest degree with those qualities which both Hoover and Roosevelt lack and which the country so sorely needs...
...have been made for a baseball game between the Cambridge Police and the "Plympton Playboys", on Friday evening at 6.15 o'clock on Russell Field, North Cambridge. The game is planned as a conciliatory measure to restore the good feeling between the students and the police. Mayor Russell will toss out the first ball, which will be caught by Gaspar G. Bacon, president of the Massachusetts Senate. Major Charles R. Apted '06 will umpire the game...
...outclassed the New Yorkers in spite of the deceptively small score, although the metropolitan team was not running full strength. On the whole, the Crimson's strong reserves should prove a strong factor in favor of the home team this evening in a game which would otherwise be a toss-up, but the Harvard sextet will have to show a lot better playing than it did against the Tiger aggregation which Yale trimmed so easily a short time ago. HARVARD ST. MARY'S Cunningham, r.w. l.w., E. Prelesnick Wood, c. c., Bujold Crosby, l.w. r.w., Howden McGregor...
...version of the Official) system and the Culbertson (or approach-forcing) system of play. Virtually all other bridge experts have joined with Mr. Lenz in approving the Official System, which was adopted largely to eliminate confusion during contract's experimental period. Mr. Culbertson, however, flatly refused to toss his system into the common pot. He has bitterly attacked the Official System and Mr. Lenz as one of its prime movers...
...third down Crowley was thrown for a four-yard loss when Hageman and Wood broke up his attempted end run play. On the fourth down Lassiter attempted a pass, but the toss was short and Harvard took the ball on her own 11-yard line after a brilliant stand...