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Word: comer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ecker and Ford will be remembered as the flashy pair that ran wild over opposition when they worked together on the Belmont High outfit last year. Biledean was a star of the Fxeter eleven last fall and looks like a comer in the fallback position. Charles W. Kessley, leader of the Salem High team of a year age, is holding down the left guard niche...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN GRIDSTERS TO WORK TOWARD ANDOVER | 10/3/1933 | See Source »

...could forgive Whitney if we could forget the West Point and the Brown games of last year, but Allie Sherman seems to be a real comer. He is fast, heavy enough and heady enough and ought to make the grade. Barrett? He's a question mark. He's been up in team A during the last week but our memories are strained in trying to remember what he did last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 9/27/1933 | See Source »

...Spiller, producers). Here is a play sure in its unpretentious telling of a wholesome, sometimes humorous, sometimes moving story. A frieze of homely figures on a Mid-western ground, One Sunday Afternoon opens in the shabby dental parlor of Biff Grimes. D. D. S. (Lloyd Nolan, an able new-comer). Stimulated by an old crony, a bottle of rye and innumerable repetitions of "in the good old summer time." Biff's imagination reaches sadly back to his youth in another little town. Nostalgia gives way to intemperate anger when he thinks of the injustices he received at the hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 27, 1933 | 2/27/1933 | See Source »

Danish-born Pilot William Ulbrich, 31, Italian-born Dr. Leon Martocci Pisculli, Manhattan gynecologist, and Edna New comer, 28, a pretty, plumpish brunette nurse from Williamsport, Pa. Also aboard was a woodchuck named Tailwind. Announced purpose of the expedition was to permit Dr. Pisculli to study the effects of fatigue on transatlantic flyers. Believing that many ocean flights have ended tragically because of carbon monoxide gas in the cabin, Dr. Pisculli took along Woodchuck Tailwind (more susceptible to the gas than humans) as a safety gauge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Jumping Nurse | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

...seat in place of Armstrong. . .Erickson, number 3, is the man who claims he likes the four-mile "brush" (as Coach Bert Haines would call it) because you have time to settle down and row! . .A Californian, Ed Yeomans, keeps up the Californian rowing tradition at 2, a new comer to be sure in this veteran crew, but earning his salt. . .At bow we come to Waldo Holcombe who carries the family tradition from lecture platform to the boat house. . .Well intrenched in the cox's seat for three years, at the rope's end, presides Ham Bissell, the only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 6/23/1932 | See Source »

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