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Word: deckers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four Harvard representatives were eliminated from the intercollegiate Squash Tournament at Williams today, thus ending any hope of a Crimson victory. Both Gene Nickerson and Decker Orr reached the quarterfinals, but were beaten after hard battles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: All Four Crimson Courtmen Forced From Tournament | 3/1/1941 | See Source »

...four Crimson racquetmen survived their first round matches in the Inter-Collegiate Tournament at Williams yesterday, but Decker Orr was outstanding as a result of his upset victory over Hill of Penn. Sandy Parker won his match from Hendrie of Williams, 3 games to 2. Gene Nickerson won from Adams of Yale in another tight, five-game contest by the same score, while Sonny Lyell beat another Williams man, Hemphill, again 3 to 2. Decker Orr won his match from favored Hill in three straight games, raising the Crimson hopes for a victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Orr Scores Upset Win As All Four Crimson Courtmen Win | 2/28/1941 | See Source »

...seeded for the tournament beginning Thursday is Tiger Charlie Brinton who won the National Tournament held in New York yesterday afternoon. Seniors Gene Nickerson and Sonny Lyell together with Sophomores Decker Orr and Sandy Parker from Barbaby's strong 1941 squad are rated a good chance to score an upset...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Racquetmen May Upset Tiger Ace | 2/25/1941 | See Source »

Sleepily squirming into their warm flight jackets, the students straggle below for a muster. A quarter-mile run around the barracks gives them an eye-opener before they shave, make up their double-decker bunks, sit down to a hearty breakfast served up by corpulent civilian Concessionaire Moe Greenspan, better known as Moe the Greasepan, who loads their stomachs with 80 pounds of food a day, hears more complaints about the chow than a Congressman. By 7:45 they are pushing their yellow biplane trainers out of the hangars for the day's flying. It is still very, very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Fledglings | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

During the week the A team beat M.I.T., and lost to the Union Boat Club, the state champions by a score of 4 to 1. Decker Orr was the one survivor, playing very well to win his match. The varsity B team won from Boston Y.M.C.A., and the Freshman C team took their first win of the season when they beat the Harvard Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RACQUETMEN BEAT LORD JEFFS, 8-1 | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

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