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...enactment of the gaming statute crowded Reno's palaces of chance with increased patronage, although no addi tional halls were opened. The new law merely makes legal what has gone on 24 hours daily for years. The famed Bank Club, however, was preparing to knock out a wall to provide larger quarters for the gamesters. Each game was taxed $50 a month, 50%, of which will go to the city in which it is collected, the remainder split between county and State. Slot machines were licensed at $10 a month. Although the State passed an antigambling law in 1910. since...
Some of the terms of rugby are similar to those of football, while others, with similar names, have special meanings. Below are listed definitions of the commoner terms of rugby lingo: a "fair-catch" is a catch made direct from a kick or throw forward (knock-on) by one of the opposing side. The catcher must immediately claim the same by making a mark with his heel at the spot where he made the catch. A "goal" is obtained by kicking the ball over the opponents' cross bar, from the field-of-play by any kick or drop kick except...
...children do--that is to say, they placed some on top of others and some next to others. Once they had all the blocks erected into a magnificently lofty column. For a moment they stood aside and admired their handiwork, and then Johnnie said impatiently, "Oh, let's knock it down! I don't like it. I want another pile." So, with mirthful glee they destroyed their tower and built another...
...Harvard University constructed a chapel. In the 1930's Harvard University says, "Oh, let's knock it down. We don't like it. We want another chapel...
...middle-aged woman answered the correspondent's knock, went to fetch Mme Ekaterina Dzhugashvili. Lenin called her son "Stalin" ("Steel") for short, and the name has stuck, but the Man of Steel's proper name is Josef Vissarionovitch Dzhugashvili...