Word: comeback
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undefeated California, last year's Rose Bowl winner, which had gained 1,920 yards from scrimmage and rolled up 173 points (to 31 for its opponents) in seven games (three outside the conference) this season. The other was Southern California, making a dramatic comeback (with four straight conference victories and One over Ohio State) after losing its opening game to Alabama...
...spite of the fact that the Republicans staged a spectacular comeback in the Congressional elections last Tuesday, there is no immediate prospect of a sweeping victory in 1940, arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government said in an interview yesterday...
...pioneers plowed under the grass of the Great Plains, ''antelope" herds roamed from Texas to Canada, from the Mississippi to the Cascades. Because of unrestricted killing, by 1911 the pronghorns, like the buffalo, were threatened with extinction. But pronghorn herds, now well protected, have staged a reproductive comeback: in Oregon alone, according to the State Game Commission, they have increased tenfold...
...Republican who very nearly fits the "liberal" definition of Franklin Roosevelt and who was beaten out of his Senate seat in 1936 by William H. Smathers. Until Boss Hague and Boss Roosevelt joined forces, it had looked unlikely that Democrat Ely could head off ex-Senator Barbour in his comeback. Even now, a plurality of about 100,000 votes from Hudson County will probably be required. Knowing this, Mr. Barbour last week pressed the New Jersey Legislature to carry out an investigation of electoral funny-business in Hudson County which involved-Republicans charge-as high as 50,000 fraudulent votes...
...confusion everywhere as to the meaning and value of attending college, . . . related as cause and effect with an analogous chaos in the world generally," Mr. Lewis has probably asked his question concerning the purpose of an intellectual institution many times before. No doubt he has met the popular pedagogical comeback, "Well, what do you think...