Word: volleyings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Volley ball courts are being constructed on Soldiers Field for the use of students in the regular conditioning class, but they may also be used in inter-House competition. There has also been a movement started to include dinghy racing in the various sports activities...
...hottest days in midsummer there will probably be fewer dull setting-up exercises and more of such games as volley ball. In general the summer program will be more flexible than this spring with many of the present rough spots ironed...
Likewise track and baseball will continue on a House basis with perhaps a few meets and games with local teams, and with the possibility of a University meet. Softball and outdoor volley ball are to be organized, while tennis and golf will count for credit on same basis as at present...
...Alexander Hamilton, who tried to calm the mob, were stoned. So was Baron von Steuben, who, while pleading with the Governor not to use force, got hit by a brickbat and fell bleeding to the street. Changing his mind about pacifism, he cried: "Fire, Governor, fire!" At the first volley five people were killed, seven or eight wounded...
...skins before killing them. They tied some rebellious sepoys to the muzzles of cannon, and then fired the cannon. As late as 1919, at Amritsar, British General Reginald Edward Harry Dyer ordered his troops to disperse a prohibited meeting of unarmed Indians by firing into the crowd; the volley killed...