Word: deadlocking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trophy the 1931 team won a cup donated by an anonymous alumnus of the University. The game was fast and close, with the regular six chukkers ending in a 5 to 5 deadlock. The only foul of the encounter came in the second chukker, when L. A. Shaw '30, of the University team fouled Gerry, who scored from the 20-yeard line on the penalty place shot granted to him. FRESHMAN UNIVERSITY Nicholas, No. I No. 1. Shaw Gerry, No. 2 No. 2, Burnett Jenkins, No. 3 No. 3, Cotton Clark. back back, Mandell...
...from Captain H. W. Burns '28. Hardie, by virtue of a triple in the seventh inning of the encounter with the Wolverines, increased his total of three-baggers to six, still holding the lead in that department. His triple, scoring W. W. Lord '28 broke the 5 to 5 deadlock and started his team on the road to victory. Burns, who took the batting honors from John Prior 29 after the first few games of the season, has dropped to second place, his average being .393, a drop of 6 points in the last six clashes...
Reenacting in miniature the scenes of the 1924 convention in New York, the mock Democratic convention last night broke a long deadlock between Governor Smith and former Secretary Baker by nominating Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana. The deadlock lasted for eight ballots, but near midnight the rivals gave in and the convention agreed on a compromise candidate. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, assistant Secretary of the Navy under President Wilson, was nominated for vice-President on the first ballot...
...balloting found Smith and Baker far ahead of the rest of the wide field. On the sixth ballot Baker gained the lead, but lost it on the seventh. After this ballot a conference of state chairmen was held, and two ballots later the deadlock was broken as state after state went for Walsh...
Stampeding, snake-dancing. The Star-Spangled Banner, The Sidewalks of New York, the steam-roller--all the accouterments of the Great Deadlock of 1924 found their way into New Lecture Hall for two evenings, and Harvard saw a convention that proved to be a remarkable facsimile of the Democratic meeting four years ago. Not only in the superficial aspects of cheering delegates and persistent, singing did the gathering at Cambridge resemble its national predecessor; but, even as the party was obliged to compromise in 1924, so did the mark convention compromise last evening...