Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Major reason for present-day gate receipts of $75,000,000 during an eight-week college football season is the increasing prevalence of wide-open play, more pronounced this year than ever before. Almost every major college has at least one better-than-average runner, one better-than-average passer. The forward pass, written into the rules in 1906, wandered around as a hit-or-miss side line for a quarter of a century. Now, since it has become the darling of the Rules Committee, the pass has developed into a major technique-classified into spot, crossover, alley, flat aerials...
...determined to try a new experiment in plastic surgery: a living graft from another person of the same blood group (TIME, Dec. 13). Clara's distant cousin, John Melvin Bonner, 16, offered to risk his skin. Dr. Moran slit a strip of skin 16 inches long, half-inch wide, from John's armpit to his hip. He rolled it lengthwise into a narrow tube, attached the upper end of the tube to Clara's body. He assumed that John's blood would nourish the tube until it became firmly rooted in Clara. He would then detach...
Only antelope in the world are found in Asia and Africa. But the fleet-footed North American pronghorns, tawny, wide-eyed little animals about the size of a calf, were called antelope on sight by the Adam-pioneers. Before those pioneers plowed under the grass of the Great Plains, ''antelope" herds roamed from Texas to Canada, from the Mississippi to the Cascades. Because of unrestricted killing, by 1911 the pronghorns, like the buffalo, were threatened with extinction. But pronghorn herds, now well protected, have staged a reproductive comeback: in Oregon alone, according to the State Game Commission, they...
...week's end no one in authority would predict what might happen next. It seemed unlikely management would still insist on the December 1 cut; but if it should, labor would undoubtedly go on the nation-wide strike already voted. By putting it squarely up to the Government to do something for the staggering roads, the Fact-Finders gave impetus to Franklin Roosevelt's request that the two opposing groups get together on a sweeping legislative program...
...other in just three plays (a 50-yard runback of a kickoff, an incompleted pass, and then a completed pass), booted the extra point, tied unbeaten Boston College 26-10-26. Each team scored four touchdowns, succeeded in two of its tries for the extra point, kicked wide once, and had one try blocked...