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Word: clashing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kicks in the account of the former encounter; the names of Wilson, Olson, Hook, Koransky, and a hitherto unknown Sophomore, Welch, will long be connected with slashing off tackle runs, deceptive backfield maneuvers, and a towering front line defense in the mind of all who witnessed the second Stadium clash of east and mid-West. In almost every respect Saturday was the reversal of the 1921 battle; it was this time the Harvard eleven which never got started offensively on the defense; and it was the Hoosier backs who gained almost at will, and who seemed several times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PURDUE AVENGES FALL OF INDIANA | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...Roses." Its mournful notes may have been vaguely appropriate, but they did not seem so at the time. For the dulcet tones of popular melodies serve only to annoy the Stadium's frenzied occupants, whose demand will ever be for the trumpet's martial blare, and the cymbals' clash punctuating the tune of a familiar football song...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MARTIAL MUSIC | 10/8/1927 | See Source »

...Henry Ford has in his character a certain naïve quality that makes his acts or words credible no matter how far they may seem to clash with logic or probability."?New York Evening Post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Apology to Jews | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

...Chaloner due to a difference with his family over his sanity, a now famed telegram: "Who's looney now?" In 1914 she married Lucien Muratore; in the same year both came to the U. S. to sing with the Chicago Grand Opera Association, left in 1922 after a clash with Mary Garden. Since then they have both lived in Paris where Mrs. Muratore maintains a beauty parlor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 11, 1927 | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

Tomorrow at 10 o'clock the Freshman crews will meet in a two-mile upstream clash. Yale is not tremendously powerful, having lost to Princeton, and the Crimson 1930 boat is a slight favorite. Captain Willard's boat, however, has a way of looking pretty in practice and not so fast under fire. In its one race it beat M. I. T. and Pennsylvania, but not by the margin which the difference in the appearance of the crews seemed to warrant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crew's Chances of Victory Over Eli Are Brightest Since 1920 | 6/23/1927 | See Source »

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