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Word: downs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the University players reported inside the practice enclosure yesterday W. B. Trafford '32 188-pound tackle, was with the squad. He was promoted from the seconds as two members of the first string group, a guard and tackle, were sent down to Coach Knox's squad.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACKFIELD LINEUP PRESENTS PROBLEM | 10/1/1929 | See Source »

William Randolph Hearst and Louis B. Mayer, cineman, lunched Winston Spencer Churchill in Los Angeles. Announced Mr. Hearst: "I don't know exactly what to say. I came down from the ranch last night with Mr. Churchill, and we were six hours in the automobile, and I told him everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

After Mr. Churchill had finished and sat down, a scratchy, Churchillesque voice began to speak from somewhere: "In ex pressing my thanks to you for your kind welcome, and to our hosts for the all too flattering terms in which they refer to me . . ." Mr. Churchill flushed, grinned, heard his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

George Ade, humorist (Fables in Slang), rose dripping from his bath tub to answer his telephone at his summer home near Brook, Ind. He skidded, crashed, skittered down the stairs, broke his left arm.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

With a fund of good material on hand, the Harvard mentor plans two scrimmages, possibly three, this week in an attempt to cut his present squad of 48 down to more wieldy proportions. This afternoon will find the first string players pitted against Coach Knox's seconds and the two...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HORWEEN LAUNCHES DRIVE FOR OPENER | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

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