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Word: cagey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they alone are sufficiently resilient to give but not shatter under the pressure of what he sees as a world-wide Leftward swing. Does his present critical attitude indicate that he has fundamentally changed his mind about Roosevelt & Co.? Last week, best answer seemed to be that one of cagey Roy Howard's strongest policies is never to let a politician feel too sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Hawkins for Howard | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

...brilliant open field running, a watch-charm back who caught the Bruins of Brown University unawares and romped through their ranks for a touchdown. And Pop Nairne, the Poly Prep star who has yet to scale the heights of Dartmouth gridiron fame, and Capt, Kenney, a bruising blocker, cagey quarter, and Gordon Bennett, a tackle already mentioned by Allison Danzig as a candidate for All-American honors...

Author: By Skip Brown, SPORTS COLUMNIST, THE DALLY DARTMOUTH | Title: Veteran Eleven From Hanover Will Descend on Stadium as of Old to Continue Ancient Rivalry | 10/26/1935 | See Source »

Still chief of Carr's worries is that of his attacking forward berths. Manheimer, cagey with the ball, is a good enough center, but he broke into Harvard soccer at right outside, that's where he belongs, and that's where he rates as one of the classiest players in intercollegiate soccer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/22/1935 | See Source »

...profusion of backs is filling Coach Stahley's hair, but one of the best is Freddie deRham, for years the mainstay of St. Mark's eleven. Bob Gannett of Milton is a cagey signal-caller and a fine punter. Clarence Boston of Moses Brown is a strong prospect, and Johnny Carchia of Cambridge Latin, though small, is, they say, something of a ball of fire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Large Freshman Squad of 130 Has Staff Busy as Cut Nears | 9/25/1935 | See Source »

...with two fingers on a rickety typewriter. Specialists, of course, he must have. Small, crisp, sharp-nosed First Secretary Erie R. Dickover is the specialist on oil, the Embassy aide of the hour. For nine years stocky, dimple-cheeked Councilor of Embassy Edwin Neville, fluent in Japanese, cagey and impossible to ruffle, has been the mainstay of successive

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Tokyo Team | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

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