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Word: benches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jitters followed them on to the playing field. They fumbled three times. The first fumble cost them, a safety. Minnesota turned the other two into touchdowns. That brought the score to 16-0. Northwestern's coach Bob Voigts chewed gum a mile a minute on the bench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Nine's Big Wheels | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...much for him. By the time Alma looks sex squarely in the face, it is too late to win John's love or even arouse his lust: he has kind of taken her words to heart, and settled down with someone else. For Alma, there is the bench in the square and the passing traveling salesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Oct. 18, 1948 | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...series was called off for almost twenty years after a tragic incident marred the 1910 encounter. The Army coach refused to remove his left tackle, Eugene Byrne, from the game, despite that fact he was so obviously exhausted that Harvard's Percy Haughton sent a request to the opposing bench asking that he be taken out. "We'll leave him in there until he drops," was the replay. On the very next play, according to the story, Byrne was removed from the field, dead...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Early Victories Give Crimson 16-10 Margin in Army Series | 10/16/1948 | See Source »

People sitting close to the Harvard squad on Saturday noticed a television set down on the bench. This is something new. Television is usually shot from the top of the stadium, so it enables the coaching staff down below to see something of what the spotter on the roof is talking about. It also suggests the possibility of having a special television set-up arranged exclusively for a coaching staff, so that the camera would focus on the particular players the coach is interested in seeing...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Off The Cuff | 10/6/1948 | See Source »

People sitting close to the Columbia bench say that Lou Little did not want that field goal in the first quarter. Apparenty signals got mixed up, because he was raging and fuming and stomping and storming after the play...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Off The Cuff | 10/6/1948 | See Source »

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