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Word: bigs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beefy, six foot four inch center named Jim McFadden is, by virtue of his size--a department in which the Crimson is dismally deficient, the chief Weapon which Newman will roll into the blockhouse. Big men who literally overpower Harper's economy size players under the boards have always been a source of difficulty to the '52 quintet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '52 Five Seeks 5th Win Here Against Newman Prep Team | 2/9/1949 | See Source »

Nevertheless there will be one big factor on Harvard's side--the return to the first line of Lew Preston, large left wing who last year went to Europe on the A.A.U.'s olympic sextet, the team that didn't play. Two seasons before, in 1945-46, Preston was one of eastern college hockey's highest scorers...

Author: By Douglasm. Fouquet, | Title: Underdog Sextet Faces BU Tonight | 2/9/1949 | See Source »

...Big Jack Carman, who has operated so effectively ever since shifting from forward to defense, will serve on the first defense with Dick Greeley. Sophomore Phil Clark seems to have clinched the goalie's job for the present...

Author: By Douglasm. Fouquet, | Title: Underdog Sextet Faces BU Tonight | 2/9/1949 | See Source »

...none too steady in their victory over Harvard and having since been beaten by Dartmouth and Brown--teams the varsity has been able to top-they looked red hot against Army and Princeton. The B.U. sextet remains about the best balanced eastern college team, boasting three good lines, a big defense, and an excellent goalie in Ike Bevins...

Author: By Douglasm. Fouquet, | Title: Underdog Sextet Faces BU Tonight | 2/9/1949 | See Source »

...featured with "Rogues Regiment" is a Hollywood heartwarmer entitled "Big city." It features the cop on the Beat (George Murphy), a good-hearted gamin (Butch Jenkins), and sundry other people you want to avoid. Worst of all it has Margaret O'Brien. This observer has always felt that M-G-M's Margaret is an ill-tempered, abnormal, sniveling little wretch; the sooner she reaches the awkward age the better...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Rogues' Regiment | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

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