Word: walling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Especially startling to everyone present was the showing of Norm Blotner, who was shifted from his regular position at first defense to play in the midfield at second defense. Twice Blotner, in spite of his inexperience in the forward wall, plowed through the Red defense for goals...
...Wall Around a Pool," by Philip Brooks, the characters are of a somewhat higher social class (Harvard and Radcliffe, tall French windows, Atlantic Monthly) but they face a similar decision. Here we are permitted to observe the event. Unfortunately "Wall Around a Pool" is less simply written than the others. The hero's though-stream is tainted with literature, and his phrases sometimes suggest the love-pulps. "You could neck her and yammer love between her teeth and all the time her mind would be skating on that little pool." The heroine talks in the early Noel Coward-Philip Barry...
...Engineer J. M. Barnett, practicing signals for reporters, ordered him to raise one arm. Instead he started walking backward, kept on walking backward even when commanded to stop by the engineer, who grew a little excited-and still less careful of his phrasing. Elektro might have backed through a wall had not Robotmaster Barnett shut off his supply of electric power...
Buckley's "money" hitting featured the game. He came across in the eighth with a long triple to the Stadium wall in deep left to drive in two badly needed runs, and smashed in the game-winning marker with a high-powered line single to center. Finegan's triple to left started the crucial ninth inning rally...
...scale, or what have you, it is particularly fitted to serve the function of college conferences. It is that type of conference where the views of academicians are not only hung on the line, but where these are synthesized with those of men from the Greek temples of both Wall Street and Washington. It is also peculiar in that it pools the brain trusts of student body and faculty from the three greatest universities of the East. Its lineup aims at being an all-star...