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Word: climbed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tiger five, smarting after two last minute defeats in the Eastern Intercollegiate League competition, will attempt to climb out of the League basement against the Crimson quintet...

Author: By Basketball Editor, Robert H. Mcbaride, and The DAILY Princetonian, (SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CRIMSON)S | Title: Despite Defeats Princeton Hopes For Victory Tomorrow | 1/14/1938 | See Source »

...started when Shea took pity on the squirrel which appeared on his window sill, standing cutely on its hind legs. Opening the window he allowed the animal to enter and then offered it some unpopped popped corn. Refusing to eat the pop corn, the squirrel started to climb the Yardling's curtain. When he attempted to pull it down, it turned and grabbed his finger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SQUIRREL, BITES YARDLING ON FIFTH FLOOR OF THAYER | 1/11/1938 | See Source »

...Duke this week wrote an impassioned letter to the London Times, disclosing that two reporters had tried to climb into his house through a window to get a look at King Leopold, had sought to enter His Majesty's railway compartment, had rung up in "bad French" on the telephone. "To what depths," wrote the Duke of Portland, "have certain members of the press descended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Visiting Kings | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

Pete Illman '40, captain of the '37 Freshmen, may climb into the Varsity 155-1b. berth this season. A member of the Exeter squad for some years before he came to Harvard to win several titles for the Yardlings, Illman knows more about the game than any one else, has not the speed and muscle of either Harkness or Glendinning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/19/1937 | See Source »

...London bureau of Associated Press reported that "all authoritative sources here think Great Britain is ready to climb belatedly on the Franco bandwagon. . " . There are two reasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Agents | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

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