Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saturday to the Price of the tickets: $3.85 for every seat in the Bowl. Calling for an H-Y-P conference to revise the price scale, the News is rooting for a double rate-$3.50 for seats between the goal lines, and $2.20 for the end zones, on the ground that "the days when crowds flocked to games at $3.85 a head are gone, never to return." In Cambridge, however, those days are only a little less alive than they were in the twenties, and there is no real reason why they should be given up for dead...
Coach Ducky Pond is bringing another typical Yale underdog football team into the Stadium Saturday. The Elis have a good defensive line, a weak running attack, and a dangerous aerial offensive. On Saturday, that forward wall may become a ball of defensive fire capable of making Crimson ground advances painstaking, the running attack may function like a well-oiled machine, or the Blue passers may drop their deadly bombs right on their targets...
...spins around and throws a touchdown pass to the left, one of his favorite plays, he usually explains to his opponent: "Just a little thing we thought up . . . no deception intended." Once when an opposing tackier bounced him for the 19th time, Christman gazed up at him from the ground, said: "My boy, why don't you rest on your laurels...
...guess not. But I'll tell you what I'll do-I'll give you $40,000 for Paramount." So are his crazy cracks. A high-pressure salesman trying to sell Kaufman some goldmine stock spieled dramatically: "You can shovel the gold right off the ground into wheelbarrows." "What!" exclaimed Kaufman. "You have to stoop...
Walter Motor Truck Co.: an $11,000, six-man-cab tractor-trailer combine that can haul 20 tons over rough ground...