Word: backed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yard of two for the first down, he gave the ball to his tall back who just put his head down and bulled his way through...
...plays, requiring a little over eight minutes, to the first touchdown of the game. Roche made a first down on the 45 and then passed to Dike Hyde to the Crusader 45. He lost nine yards on the next play but then hit stretch Mazzone to get back to the 45 again...
TOTAL STATISTICS Harvard Holy CrossFirst Downs 16 6Yds. Gained, Rushing 225 133Yds. Gained. Forwards 42 36Forward Passes 11 10Forwards Completed 6 4Forwards Intercepted by 2 0Punts 6 6Avg. Distance of Punts 41 36Run-back of Punts, Yds 18 89Fumbles 0 2Own Fumbles Recov'd 0 1Penalties 7 4Yds. Lost, Penalties...
...shrewd gallery play is what makes James M. Curley the most colorful and probably the most successful politician in Boston's history. In whatever Curley does in public life, he is ostentatious--whether driving down Boylston Street when the theatre crowd lets out with the lights on in the back seat of his limousine; or stealing the show at the Harvard Tercentenary celebration with an eloquent dissertation on the history of the relationship between the State of Massachusetts and Harvard--plus a timely presidential election year plug for Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...kept over Boston has been a very strange thing; losing as many times as he has won the race for mayor, he can hardly be called invincible. Yet after every defeat, when his opponents predicted the end of bossism in Boston, Curley has displayed remarkable resiliency and come back to win again. One reason undoubtedly is that he leaves the city in such a poor financial condition when he is defeated that the burden of reform overwhelms the next mayor. The two men that shared the mayoralty with him during the Twenties, Malcolm E. Nichols and Andrew J. Peters, both...