Word: volleyed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...production of real stars is the lack of courts. On the school campus we have no room for courts so I leave our tennis net on the porch nights so the boys can get it at daylight and use our private court before breakfast. I never dreamed that volley ball could be so exciting and full of sport until I came to China. In fact, it is the most popular sport among the schoolboys of Foochow, and its simplicity has attracted the majority of our students to engage...