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Word: 99th (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yale has one strong line (Bray, Ritz, Clapp) and two weak ones; the Crimson has three strong, well-balanced lines. If the first line can match the Yale starting trio goal for goal while the second and third lines build up a lead, then the 99th Harvard-Yale hockey game will go to Harvard. HARVARD YALE Yetman g Burns Carman ld Raines Greeley rd Hart Preston fw Ritz D Key c Bray Garrity rw Clapp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six Seeks Second Win Over Yale at New Haven Tonight | 3/12/1949 | See Source »

...Tsaolaochi, a grey brick station-house with a mud-walled village behind it, Nationalist forces had just set up a forward headquarters. Under General Li Yen-nien, commander of the Sixth Army Group, two field armies, the 99th. and the 54th, about 50,000 strong, were pressing northwestward in an attempt to join hands with the Twelfth Nationalist Army Group at Suhsien, 25 miles away. In a battered G.M.C. ten-wheeler truck, we lurched after them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Eighteen Levels Down | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...late afternoon, our ten-wheeler pulled into the large village of Chiang-chiahu, forward headquarters of General Hu Chang-ching's 99th Army. "We are fighting from village to village," said affable, silver-toothed Hu, pointing to some pillars of smoke a couple of miles ahead. "Chen Yi's sixth column and some of Liu Po-cheng's troops are. throwing up defense lines between here and Huang Wei's Twelfth Army Group." There were 20 or more tough miles still to go for a junction with the encircled Huang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Eighteen Levels Down | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...99th lap, Duke pulled his Novi Special into the pits for a scheduled fuel stop. As compressed nitrogen blew fuel from a drum into his tank, the precious seconds ticked away. Before his tank was full, Duke roared back into the race. About 86 laps later, while battling for the lead, Duke Nalon was caught by the nightmare that has haunted motorists since the day of the linen duster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Winning Ways | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

Henry Erlich, associate editor of Look, arrived in Cambridge last Saturday to prepare a feature article on the 99th of the Pudding's famed musicals. A staff photographer accompanied him to take shots of the rehearsals, as well as coler photos of the chorus in some of the dance numbers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Look' Reporter, RKO Man Investigate Pudding Musical | 3/25/1947 | See Source »

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