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Word: bench (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cohen of the Record: "Harvard, 27 to 7. Captain Torbert Macdonald should have a great day in leading the Crimson eleven to an easy victory. After sitting on the bench all season Torby will be all pepped up and raring to tame the Bulldog again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Favored In Ten of Eleven Sports Forecasts | 11/25/1939 | See Source »

...just a few minutes he was undressed and waiting to be taped. Johnny was still tearing the adhesive, and still nobody else had come in. He sat on a chewed-up bench and stretched out his legs, wiggling his toes, absently watching his calf muscles jump into a curve. The soreness was all gone...

Author: By J. P. L., | Title: The Vagabond | 11/25/1939 | See Source »

Dick Harlow was a soldier during the war and he can take it on the chin. In the heat of a football battle Dick sits on the bench calmly smoking an Havana cigar. Win or lose Dick takes it good naturedly; he works against overconfidence but he heaps praises where praises...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Time Out | 11/25/1939 | See Source »

...Seabury are a pair of powerful tackles, and Cape Burnam and Jim Dern are capable guards, but the pressure on them Saturday is going to be terrific. Moreover, the reserves for these men have the doubtful distinction of not having worn themselves out against Princeton. They sat on the bench all afternoon and picked up valuable experience...

Author: By D. D. P., | Title: What's His Number? | 11/23/1939 | See Source »

Snitching letters and keeping photostats are what every Mystery Woman does and "Toffi," as she is also called, sat looking pleased with herself, on a front bench at the justice's right. A stumpy, determined, middle-aged woman, she wisely wore a quiet black dress and small black hat with large black velvet snood into which she tucked her mouse-brown hair. Her attorney, King's Counsel Mr. Gilbert Beyfus, opened cautiously by tracing events back twelve years to his client's first meeting with Lord Rothermere. The Viscount, he declared, "told the Princess in 1927 that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mystery Woman | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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