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Word: downes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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If plugger Hewitt can hold the fort against studies, Lonnie Stowell (now a distance man), and Bob White, who will be recovered from the effects of an appendectomy soon, he'll be doing a grand job. Big Jim Curwen, an All-American 100 man two years ago, is now working...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/7/1939 | See Source »

Six men, killed in battle, arose from their graves last night at Sanders Theatre and refused to be buried. Despite the commands of army, church and family, they refused to lie down again. In "Bury The Dead" Irwin Shaw combines a fierce hatred of war with a conviction that the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 12/6/1939 | See Source »

On the second team, Sam White and Homer Peabody, both lettermen, are two notches above six feet and Lee Bird is one inch over the mark. Johnny Rigby drops down to five, eleven, and Bobby James is a bare five feet, ten.

Author: By John C. Robbins jr., | Title: Four Sophomores Start as Basketball Schedule Begins With Tech Tonight | 12/5/1939 | See Source »

Novel and refreshing, judging by standards now in vogue, are the theories of teaching outlined by the poet Robert Frost in a recent interview with the press. Mr. Frost, who is conducting a weekly class at Harvard this year, holds no brief for stereotyped spoon-fed education. He states frankly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 12/5/1939 | See Source »

FROM a narrow, blue sea-chest stuffed with maps, tall log-books, cash-books, account-books, diaries, and musty bills of lading. Robert Coffin has gleaned much of the material for his true tale of the voyages of Captain John Pennell and wife, Abby, of Casco Bay, Maine. From these...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 12/5/1939 | See Source »

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