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Word: crashing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same time, Chief "Crash" Davis will field is B team against an all-star team from the ASTP unit here. They will seek to make up for last week's 7-3 defeat administered by Andover Academy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON NINE TO FACE BROWN TOMORROW AT PROVIDENCE | 5/19/1944 | See Source »

Coach Floyd Stahl's Varsity baseball nine will try to repeat last week's 5 to 4 victory over Camp Thomas when it faces a strong team from Northeastern University tomorrow at 3:15 o'clock at Soldiers Field. At the same time, Chief Crash Davis will take his B team to Andover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baseball Team Will Engage Northeasterners Tomorrow | 5/12/1944 | See Source »

...rest of the season of Dunney Smith from Adams House, whose brilliant backfield playing along with his conversion kicking has been responsible for much of the scoring is the three previous games, the two other 3/4 position backs, Steve Ausnit and John Loos, both from Dunster, were able to crash over the New Zealand goal line on five different occasions. Loos was the star for the afternoon with three trys and a conversion kick to his credit for a total of 11 points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD WINS IN RUGBY, 17-5 | 5/9/1944 | See Source »

Driven and badgered, U.S. and Filipino captives trudged back through the Japanese lines. Handsome Lieut. Colonel William E. Dyess (later killed in a West Coast airplane crash) survived that infamous march and escaped to tell the sickening story of how living soldiers were beheaded, or thrown into trenches and buried with the already dead; how Filipinos, dying of thirst, were shot as they wriggled on their bellies towards water; how a gutted soldier with bowels dangling was hung on barbed wire as an object lesson to those who would escape; how men who had dropped in the road were ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: 15467 | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

...Heaven, Charlie MacKenzie (Ralph Forbes) has spectrally hugged his old haunts for 150 years. At the moment he is pleasantly taken up with an appealing village "daftie" (Playwright Curtis) - only children and dafties, of course, can communicate with ghosts. From his angel wife Charlie learns that he can still crash the pearly gates if he reforms a living sinner. He pitches on the neighborhood's lustiest devotee of Scotch, women and dice, and their efforts to outsmart each other provide the brightest moments in the play. In the course of it all Charlie outsmarts himself; no Heavenly fling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, May 8, 1944 | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

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