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Word: backes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dunc Mauran, a stocky, driving full-back, was Harvard's only consistent ground-gainer and when he left the game in the third period with a bleeding mouth, the losers' only real offensive threat disappeared. Mauran was removed to Stillman and the extent of his injury could not be determined last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Jayvees Suffer 46-0 Loss To Cadet Eleven | 10/16/1949 | See Source »

...IRONS if your's ABLEMAN, I don't want to KELLUM if I CAIN help it," the wily oriental said, trying to get the GALLOWAY. "Look at the KASEMAN. He tried to BLAIK her back and if we don't DETAR him now I GUESS he'll only come BECK again. "He can't HYDE for long, because once we BARA few facts I GUESS everyone will REED about LOEHLEIN we tried to follow. We're got to FISCL bit for information but we KENARY deny it was a close SHAFER her. If he will GALIFFA alone for a while...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hu Flung, Thrice Down, Sees Mule Mauled in Embroglio | 10/15/1949 | See Source »

...simple glance at the record shows that for the seventh time in seven years, Army is loaded. The entire 1948 Cadet offensive team is back intact, along with half of the defensive team and a dozen capable reserves. Then, too, there are those 20-Third Classmen who showed last Saturday that inexperience is not really such an insurmountable handicap...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Mr. Blaik Fields A Capable Team | 10/15/1949 | See Source »

...toned reeds, or something else technical. Or perhaps it's something more. It doesn't matter to the thousands who can count on at least one bright spot in a Soldiers Field afternoon; to the fan-letter writers or to bandsmen alumni who covet their former membership, and come back to prove that they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Odds On | 10/15/1949 | See Source »

...good voice and enough unpleasantness for the mean role of Regina, and Brenda Lewis has singing ability and desperation for the unhappy Birdic. The other players seem quite adequate. But Robert Lewis' direction is seriously incpt and gross. Birdie begins too many of her songs lovingly stroking the back of a satin chair. The frollicking little Negro boy is nothing but trite, and Regina's daughter, Alexandra, is far more of a bop fan than a young Southern beauty of 1900. Regina destroys the last and most, effective scene with an interminable haughty posc...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/15/1949 | See Source »

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