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Word: basketeer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Milton, also beaten badly by last year's Freshman five, was unable to find the Harvard basket from the floor throughout the entire game, and only averted a shutout when Wheeler, Milton guard, tossed in two gift shots...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '42 BASKETEERS DRUB MILTON QUINT 35 TO 7 | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...they might, the academy boys simply could not find the range on the Crimson basket. The tenacious guarding of the Crimson prevented the Milton quintet from working the ball in near the basket, and even good set shots from out on the floor were few and far between. The harder they tried the wilder they became, and the final gun found them vainly trying to connect from almost mid-court...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '42 BASKETEERS DRUB MILTON QUINT 35 TO 7 | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...land and sea. A batch of Treasury men lounged elaborately around at the pier. Into this ambush walked Amateur DeGhett. At midnight he finally induced the T-men to stop third-degreeing and open the packages. In them they found a walking stick for DeGhett, a hand made basket for Mrs. Hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Sequels | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...dream fostered by a few Galician intellectuals. During the World War it became a German-imported article which reached its greatest success when the Tsar was overthrown, the Russian armies collapsed and German Warlords Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff decided that the Ukraine would be a good bread basket for Germany's starving armies. At the fortress of Brest-Litovsk (now in Poland) on March 3, 1918, a Russian delegation signed a humiliating treaty which detached from All the Russias not only Finland and the White Russian provinces of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia but also the valued Ukraine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASTERN EUROPE: Liberation | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Tufts played its best brand of ball before a capacity crowd. The Jumbos presented a tightly-knit defense and broke up Crimson passes time and time again. The Feslermen were never able to get a fast-breaking attack started, and their scoring was limited to an occasional basket by Charley Lutz or Homer Peabody. The latter turned in the evening's best defensive job as he held center Charley Tibbs to six points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Saturday Fatal for Two Varsities as Pucksters Bow to Toronto 11-1, Feslermen Overwhelmed by Tufts 44-29 | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

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