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Word: alf (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crimson jerseys and using the Harvard formations, featured the first workout of the week this afternoon as the Elis began preparation for the final game of the season against the Crimson in Cambridge on Saturday. Every member of the Blue squad reported for practice, including Albie Booth, Hoot Ellis, Alf Beane, and Tom Taylor, all of whom received treatment in the infirmary yesterday for minor injuries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE HAS HARD SCRIMMAGE | 11/20/1929 | See Source »

...brothers: Otto, Gus, Henry, Charlie, Alf T., Al and John. Only John is now living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Circus Trust | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...alf o' Creation she owns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Insulter Kipling | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

Poet Rudyard Kipling insulted Queen Victoria with a Barrack Room Ballad. It hailed, "the Widow at Windsor," rollicked that she sent her soldiers to "barbarious wars," bellowed that she had bought " 'alf 'o Creation" with English blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Insulter Kipling | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

Last week, to stop the cry, Assistant Prohibition Commissioner Alf Oftedal, acting in the absence of Commissioner James M. Doran, announced that Federal enforcement officers everywhere had been cautioned to refrain from spectacular raids which might in any way be thought politically motivated. This announcement came only a day or two after Nominee Hoover's return to Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Preposterous! | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

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