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Word: dicks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Contemporary man, awed by the beady eye of the child psychologist and the social worker, finds the most respectable Victorian blood far too bloody for his taste, concludes Author Turner. Dick Barton, the BBC detective to whom an estimated one in three of the British population listens nightly, is straitjacketed by all the restraints of a U.S. comic-strip hero. In his struggles, Dick may fight with nothing but his bare fists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Study in Scarlet | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

Both teams like to move the ball. The Crimson has slugged out more yardage (1385) in seven games this fall than Dick Harlow's 1947 team gained in nine and has scored at least one touchdown every Saturday...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: First Valpey Squad Favored to Whip Yale in 65th Annual Struggle Today | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...didn't take Herman long to show his lernin'. He was signed on March 17, 1948 as head coach of football at Yale University. On March 23, 1948, two of Dick Harlow's local assistants, Bob Margarita and Harry Jacunski, were off to New Haven to be the new backfield and end coaches. Along with them went a lot of specific information about Crimson players as a sort of bonus for Herman...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Herman Hickman: Big Bright Bulldog | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...winners got the first break of the game when they downed one of their own punts after a Winthrop back had accidentally touched it. From the Winthrop 15, Davenport moved to the one on two plays, and from there Dick Moses bulled his way over. Bud Krch dropped back from his guard post to kick the extra point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Takes House-College Garlands; All Other Houses Fall Before Yale Rivals | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...people have tried to analyze how he does it, but they all end up by saying, "I don't know. He's just a great gay." It seems much easier to make a character study of a dramatic, Dick Harlow-type or an eternally pessimistic, Frank Leahy-type coach...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Valpey Puts Football on Road Back | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

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