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Word: beating (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coach and turn into an American college and maybe you can do something so the Alumni don't have to apologize for or be ashamed of it. Otherwise play only U. of C. and Columbia where you belong, the Columbia will lick you. You may still be able to beat the Communist University of Chicago. Yours without respect. R. R. Goodell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 12/5/1939 | See Source »

Various people will remember 1939 for various things: as the year War II started, when Congressman Martin Dies exposed the Red menace, when Joe Louis beat Tony Galento, when Al Capone got out of jail. Mrs. E. M. Noble, of Minneapolis, Minn., will remember it as the year she crocheted 117,000 feet of thread into a 10' 6" by 6' 4" tablecloth with 2,000,000 patient little stitches and won the crochet championship of the U. S. Prize: $250 in cash, a trip to Manhattan, a gold crochet hook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Champ | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

After the Governor's daughter, Helen Troy Bender, whacked a bottle of champagne on one of the goal posts, 500 bewildered natives, most of whom had never seen a football game except in the newsreels, watched the Sourdoughs beat the Baranofs, 6-to-0. The Gold Bowl was a cinder-strewn field, frozen sandpaper-rough. But nobody bled much. The players, onetime U. S. college footballers living in Alaska, were dressed in uniforms donated by the University of Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gold Bowl | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...anguish. Yet by resisting for months public and political pressure to remove him, Lincoln allowed him to build a great army; by later reappoint-ing him, again against great pressure, he restored to the army the one favorite and familiar commander under whom it had the spirit to beat off Lee at Antietam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Your Obt. Servt. | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...first to handle the controls officially yesterday was Leonard G. Shepard '42, but Thomas L. Hine '40 beat the gun and took to the air at 7:30 o'clock on Saturday morning in one of the five dual-controlled Piper Cub government planes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First of Over 70 Students Take to Air As Government Flying Lessons Begin | 11/28/1939 | See Source »

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