Word: volley
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...means that an act has ended and the nonsports are giving an imitation of enthusiasm. On a certain cold night last week, they heard that familiar sound ; it seemed curiously louder, nor did it die away. While they swapped butts, it grew, swelled into a steady, insistent, thunderous, stubborn volley, lasted for 13 minutes. The shuffling ones stared at one another in silent amaze. ''Cheest!" they said...
...most usual lair of embryo plots of the sort which Mr. Brown and the Traveler hunt seems to be the police station. A volley of shots, a crash of glass, a succession of piercing shrieks,--and a complete detective story has clicked itself off on the Corona. Simple, what...
...purposely injuring and neglecting the famed graduate schools of the University in favor of his own Department of Geography and that he had weakened the morale of the faculty and destroyed that of the student body by "untruthfulness and shifty methods." He met the barrage by a volley of countercharges, that his critics were radicals, that [under him] Clark was just beginning to have a college spirit. Said he: "It's all bosh. . . . Clark's athletic life is just beginning. Hitherto Clark did not compete with other colleges in athletics. Now we are having varsity teams and the college spirit...
...volley of British "Gawd Bless...
...first encounter of the afternoon, Ingraham had little difficulty in overcoming L. Coleman, 6-2, 6-1. The score, however, was misleading, for many of the games went to deuce, and there were several long rallies which Ingraham usually ended with a sharp volley to a corner of the court...