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Word: beatings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Princeton and Yale are to be worried about, however, the Crimson tankmen must consider the strong challenge Brown will make tomorrow evening to upset the Uien applecart. The Bruin swim team apparently has some of the glant-killing tendencles of its football men and will be correspondingly hard to beat. But Captain Rusty Greenhood's bunch is determined that the finish of tomorrow's meet will find Coach Ulen smlling. If a Harvard team has to have a 28-meet string broken, it's certain that either Yale or Princeton will be slightly more welcome as breakers than upstart Brown...

Author: By Charles F. Pollak, | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 1/17/1939 | See Source »

...predecessor as world's No. 1 amateur, in a night-after-night series of professional matches last year. Budge backers were equally vociferous in proclaiming that their man has the best backhand in the world, that he had won every match he wanted to win since Fred Perry beat him at Forest Hills in 1936, that he is the only tennist in history to win in one year all four major amateur championships: Australian, French, English, U. S. Like urchins arguing on a street corner, the Vinesmen usually ended the rally by jeering that Budge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Double Fault | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Convinced now that Budge could beat Vines, tennis enthusiasts started to argue anew: Could Budge beat Vines in the 70-match series? At week's end they were all even with two victories apiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Double Fault | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Lowell took Dudley, 42 to 19, while Kirkland beat the Commuters 45 to 16. High scorer of the Bellboys was Sam McClellan with a first in the 100-yard free style, a second in the 50-yard free style, and the anchor position in the winning relay team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIOT SWIMMERS WIN TO TAKE FIRST PLACE | 1/13/1939 | See Source »

Hinton finished the mile and a half course in two minutes and four seconds to beat his nearest rival, Art Gardiner, by twelve seconds. Hinton's time was fifteen seconds better than the best time on the Sherbourne trail last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skiing Poor Throughout New England Due to Warm Spell | 1/13/1939 | See Source »

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