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Word: buttes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Damage to the Law School building was estimated at $2,000 by the University Fire Department. The blaze was probably started by a cigarette butt smoldering in a couch, they said. Walls were stripped to the bricks and books ruined as firemen chopped and sprayed to stop the fire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blaze at Law School Destroys Dorm Room; $2000 Damage | 11/4/1952 | See Source »

...treacherous criminal stole up behind Lee Tracy and knocked him out with the butt of a revolver. But moments later, 54-year-old Actor Tracy leaped nimbly to his feet, disarmed the gunman, wrung a confession from a stubborn young woman, and breezily captured two gangsters for the grateful, bumbling police department. As he does regularly on Martin Kane, Private Eye (Thurs. 10 p.m., NBC), Tracy last week triumphed once again over television's singularly inept underworld. What's more, he had time and breath left over to plug the products of his sponsor, United States Tobacco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Only One Murder | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

Springfield was definitely the better team, with a defensive combination, led by halfback Charley Butt, and "heading" abilities which consistently broke up the Crimson passing attack. But Harvard's defense was solid, and the Crimson made up in aggressiveness what they lacked in skill, to send the game into overtime...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: Goal in Overtime Gives Springfield 2-1 Victory Over Crimson Booters | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

Last year at Springfield, the two teams played to a scoreless tie, and Charlie Butt, who was chiefly responsible for bottling up Harvard's attack then, will be back this year for the Maroons, either at center forward or center half. Springfield always is a hustling team, in good shape, according to Munro, and Maroon coach Iry Schmid has come up with a high-scoring forward in Bill Bearchall (two goals against Cortland...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: Booters Ready for Tilt With Tough Springfield | 10/18/1952 | See Source »

Amolsch arrived in Cambridge as Air Force sergeant in January of 1949. He liked the post immediately. He was even happier to discover that Harvard men "are good material to work with." He readily defends their martial qualities, the lack of which is a popular butt, by testifying that "Harvard turns out Licutenants just as good as those of any other school...

Author: By Frik Amfitheatrof, | Title: Drill Sergeant | 10/4/1952 | See Source »

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