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Word: drub (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Arnold Fenton went to Palmer Stadium to watch Princeton drub Dartmouth for the Ivy League championship (see above) and to keep a teacher's eye on Prize Pupil Bill Gundy. Dartmouth's punter, who worked with him for two long months last summer. Fenton had drilled the erratic Gundy on his coordination, changed him into one of the best punters in the East this fall. In the debacle. Gundy still managed to out-punt Princeton by seven yards a try. "When one of my boys like Bill gets off a good one." chuckled Father Fenton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Punting Parson | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

Judgment Drums. The rest of the animal kingdom, of course, has to die a little so that Wilson can live, including not only an elephant, but, as bad luck would have it, a native hunter too. As he drives away from the scene of his sin, the African drums drub out a judgment: "White hunter, black heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hollywood Safari | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

Winthrop played a fast game to drub Adams without much trouble, although the Gold Coasters outscored the victors in the second period. The score at the end of the first period was 20 to 4, Winthrop on top. Stan Greene and John Canepa led the Puritans with eight points each, while Dan Moulton took honors for Adams with nine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland, Lowell, Winthrop, Eliot Win House 'A' Basketball Games | 1/12/1951 | See Source »

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