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Word: cliffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oklahoma high schools, there are a 100 that can beat the best prep teams in the east, notably Andover, Choate, Taft, Gilman, and Lawrenceville. In the last few years, however, wrestling in the East has taken big strides. The influx of new coaches from the west, such as Cliff Gallagher at Harvard, Jay Ricks at M.I.T., and Dick Cole at Brown, has been a major factor in the change...

Author: By Joseph P. Lyford, | Title: WHAT'S HIS NUMBER ? | 2/16/1939 | See Source »

Those who reported yesterday are: Captain Art Johns, Bob Fulton, Frank Foley, Slim Curtiss, Tom Henley, Lefty Edinbergh, Don Prouty, Dick Galbraithe, Joe Tully, Rick Hedbloom, Carrick Heiskell, Red Davis, Bob Regan, Cliff Helman, Tony Galluccio, Jack Schwede, Charlie Brackett, Ellie Bacon, and John Woodward...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 19 Battery Prospects Come To Mentor Stahl's Meeting | 2/7/1939 | See Source »

Clinging to this unseen, vertical barrier, they might have been little animals-silver mosquitoes on a screen, countless miniature human beings, struggling to keep from falling and at the same moment stare at a great wonder, clutching at the bare face of a cliff to find support where there was not a root or weed to grasp. There was the momentary retention of position in the sphere of the light, then the same abrupt relaxation of their unaccountable grip and the rapid descent as in the lives of men he had read about, like Shelley, perhaps, or Chatterton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/3/1939 | See Source »

...into the studio lake to make it blue enough to serve as a satisfactory Technicolor background for innumerable fights, canoe trips, duellos and hairbreadth escapes of a lively, oldfashioned, fir-tree melodrama. Typical shot: Dick Foran and Russell Simpson wrestling on the edge of a cliff, while Allen Jenkins watches from the underbrush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 19, 1938 | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...Freedley, who replaced Mittell as netminder early in the game, were the only thing that prevented the Olympics from scoring at least twice in the last period. Most spectacular of these came when he dropped his stick to catch a well-placed penalty shot from the stick of Cliff Thompson, Olympic forward and former Stoneham star...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOCKEY TEAM BEATS FAVORED JUNIOR OLYMPICS 3-1 | 12/14/1938 | See Source »

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