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Word: crabs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...substituted at bow. Cambridge was not strong. Her eight sturdy rowers pulled strongly, smoothly; but there was in that boat a weakness in which, Oxford thought, Fortune might insert a wedge. That weakness was A. G. Wansborough, stroke. Thrice in the preceding week he had "caught a crab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Oxford vs. Cambridge | 4/6/1925 | See Source »

...That's what happens when you get a man in the boat!" exclaimed a passing coach as Coach Stevens, substituting in Crew Y yesterday caught a crab and broke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STEVENS SUBS ON CREW Y, CATCHES CRAB, BREAKS OAR | 3/21/1925 | See Source »

...Chief Speaker was Rev. Harry E. Fosdick, recently (TIME, Oct. 13 et seq:) jockeyed out of a Presbyterian pulpit. "Nine-tenths of the religious problem," said he, "is a senseless controversy over questions of History." Religion is like a crab, outgrowing one shell and building another. Religion consists of "the great reproducible experiences of the soul itself, with its fellows, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Some Speeches | 2/16/1925 | See Source »

...years, the crab fisheries of Chesapeake Bay and the Delaware River have fallen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Fish | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

...mile mark the University 150's had less than a length upon Yale who were beside the Princetonians. All three strokes increased the pace. Yale cut down the Harvard lead while Princeton lagged consistently. shortly before the finish, Yale, less, than half a length behind, caught a light crab, which might have given victory to the Blue. As it was, they finished about a quarter length behind the Crimson shell, while Princeton came in two lengths behind Yale. The times were: Harvard, 8.50; Yale, 8.51 4-5; Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 150 POUND CREW SPOILS PERFECT DAY FOR YALE | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

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