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Word: boney (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...starting lineups: HARVARD NAVY Gannon, cf 2b, Armstrong Crosby, c cf, Searle Mannino, ss lf, Hawkins Coulson, 1b rf, Frahler Lunder, lf 3b, Boney Caulfield, rf 1b, Brendle Huntington, 2b ss, Buck Coppinger, 3b c, Morrissey Connolly, p p, Rensberger

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Meets Powerful Navy Nine Here Today | 4/30/1948 | See Source »

...Horatio does stay at sea long enough to dampen Flame's mutiny and to steal a fully laden French West Indiaman right out from under Boney's nose. That done, he goes ashore in France-where Novelist Forester finishes him off with a peerage, Bourbon pals and an indirect, improbable part in the victory at Waterloo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hornblower's Exit | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

There are Lancashire Fusiliers, whose motto is "Bold in Everything." They got their name from fusils, which were lighter muskets than the old matchlocks. They had the honor of guarding Napoleon on St. Helena, and their Doctor Arnott attended Boney as he wasted away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Knocking at the Gate | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

...tendency toward linearity" was the scientific way that Dr. Seltzer put it. Translated from statistics, this means that the trend of college students has been away form the stocky, muscular, boney build of the football player, narrow-hipped physique of the ideal Harvard gentleman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD MEN BECOME STREAMLINED; GIRL AMAZONS APPEAR AT WELLESLEY | 11/14/1940 | See Source »

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