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Word: backed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baker's running mate Bill Hutchinson of Dartmouth steps to the fore. Without a peer as a gridiron opportunist this fleet Indian back was a scoring threat every second he was playing against all opposition this fall. John McLaughry of Brown, as brutal a bucker as Ivy League football has over seen had an off-year but still gets the call over Rainwater, Chismadia, or Seymour

Author: By Joseph P. Lyford, Donald Peddle, and Sheffield West, S | Title: Cornell Places Four Men on Crimson 1939 All-Ivy Eleven | 12/1/1939 | See Source »

...seizure of Bessarabia, which is now a part of Rumania. Russia lost three territories as a result of the last war: Finland, some parts of Poland, and Bessarabia. She has already regained two of them, and it is my guess that she may have it in mind to get back the third...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leontief Deplores Seizure of Finland; Suggests U.S. Make Vehement Protest | 12/1/1939 | See Source »

Browder entered the hall by a back entrance because 3,000 persons jammed the two front entrances. As he spoke the crowd outside raised a bedlam, shouting "Viva Hitler" and "Go back to Moscow." The Communist leader several times had to raise his voice to make himself heard inside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Uproar at Yale as Browder Lectures | 11/29/1939 | See Source »

Whiteman, 19, is one of the youngest of Yale's captains, A six-footer, weighing 185 pounds, he is a Junior who prepped at Taft School, Waterbury, Connecticut, played on Yale's Freshman team and won his letter as a blocking back last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. B. WHITEMAN, JR., CHOSEN 1940 YALE FOOTBALL CAPTAIN | 11/28/1939 | See Source »

...gaunt chateau in France, the back-wash of the French theatre take refuge as the years creep up on them, creasing their faces and withering their voices. There they sit, listening to the echoes of long-dead applause, hoping "their public" will call them back to the boards. Not very attractive material, but the French don't seem to worry about the superficial aesthetics of their pictures. They just brush up some sure-fire actors, plaster them with depressing make-up, and let the cameras grind. In the really good French films, they create an aesthetic standard all their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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