Word: backed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today students are passing up even greater opportunities than the men of a few years ago, for unawarded money is turned back into the principle of the prize funds, and the awards increase...
...Back before the First World War there had been another such organization, and it had actually put out posters showing one of its opposition, "one of the best men who ever walked the streets of East Cambridge," behind bars...
...similar penalty corner play in the junior-sophomore game sent the ball from Miss Guild to Anne Worthington and back to Miss Guild, who drove it in for the one tally...
...Mind Your Ps and Qs." In the fall of 1865 Jesse drifted back to Clay County, Mo. with other guerrillas "who refused to believe that the war was over." There was scarcely a Saturday night that Jesse's gang didn't shoot up Liberty, the county-seat. There Jesse was arrested for the first & only time in his life-by a Republican sheriff who let him and his gang go with a mild warning "to mind their Ps and Qs." The James gang sneered. In February 1866 they thundered back into Liberty and held up a bank...
Princeton blocking in the center of the line was equally effective, although, not so spectacular. The Harvard secondary had to fill the holes, and since the buck series sent the tailback and wingback around end the backers-up had to hold back until the play was committed. This usually meant a five yard gain...