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Word: backes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Halfback Pete Reiner, whose opponents have called him "the best back in the House system," carried the ball on bucks through the line in the third and fourth periods for the other two Eliot scores...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot, Adams Continue Undefeated | 10/26/1949 | See Source »

Jerome D. Rapaport '49 is the leader of these nightly squadrons and the executive secretary of the larger Students with Hynes for Better Government group which includes all the activities of the young people who back Hynes. Rapaport was a Dunster House man in his undergraduate days hero, but made his name at the law school by helping to organize the Law School Forum...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: "Flying Squadrons" Pace Hynes Youth Movement in Boston Mayoralty Campaign; Newspaper Highlights Group's Work | 10/26/1949 | See Source »

...with William D. Weeks '49, a former Student Council president, who had a family interest in city and state politics, to form the Boston Students Civic Association. That name remained a part of the organization only until the group decided that Hynes was to be the man they would back for mayor. Then it became the Students with Hynes for Better Government a name which committed the group definitely for Hynes and left the Civic Association name for future...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: "Flying Squadrons" Pace Hynes Youth Movement in Boston Mayoralty Campaign; Newspaper Highlights Group's Work | 10/26/1949 | See Source »

Five Yard and Cambridge policemen had their hands full yesterday controlling the onlookers--sometimes over 500 strong. "Way back" shouts of Lieut. Matthew Tooey usually evoked a little more than "push 'em back" chant from the flocking spectators...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MGM Starts Shooting Crime Movie | 10/26/1949 | See Source »

...Movie Crazy," an early talkie, brings back one of the first and finest silent comedians, in one of his last and best productions. Harold Lloyd, the man who invented horn-rimmed glasses, lurched and fumbled his way to an improbable success in film milestones like "The Freshman," against competition from such adept funnymen as Buster Keaton and Chaplin himself. "Movie Crazy" shows what happened when sound hit the screen, and the champions of the gestured word had to adjust. Most of the time, they didn't bother...

Author: By Aloysius B. Mccabe, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/26/1949 | See Source »

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