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Word: bigs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...covering his position well except for one sequence and making many stops outside his area. Both ends performed capably-Stretch Mazzone, who has developed over this season into an excellent defensive end, and Pete Leavitt. The backers-up, Phil Isenberg and Paul O'Brien, also worked commendably, but the big Bruin line found it too easy to open holes in the Crimson forward wall. For a while, Howie Houston looked great on defense...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Early Brown Score Sets Victory Pattern | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...rushing figures are significant: Brown gained 345 yards to Harvard's 109, and the locals had three drives falter in Brown territory. Engle would frequently have three big tackles in his defensive line-Walters, Hill, and Colo-throw in Chernak and Hodosh, and it was just too much...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Early Brown Score Sets Victory Pattern | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Harvard's polo team takes on its second opponent of the fall at 8:30 tonight when the Crimson riders go against Cornell in the Big Red's Ithaca armory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polo Team Faces Cornell at Ithaca | 11/12/1949 | See Source »

...your seenes in Raly during the war. Throw in a big gob of partisans some mean-looking German soldiery, sprinkle liberally with social significance, squalling infants, breast women, and peasants and you might have "Paisan" or "Open City." But in this case you have "Outery," and you have a very fine motion picture...

Author: By David L. Ratner, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/8/1949 | See Source »

...blandly turn over the Kuril Islands, which control the short air route from Alaska to the Far East. The explanation Stettinius gives: U.S. military chiefs urged Roosevelt to get Stalin into the war against Japan at any cost. In his zeal to give F.D.R. a clean bill of health, Big Ed forgets that on Oct. 30, 1943, Stalin had promised Cordell Hull, with no strings attached, "clearly and unequivocally that, when the Allies succeeded in defeating Germany, the Soviet Union would then join in defeating Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yalta Revisited | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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