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Word: dubs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appears as a dangerous extension of the game. But its principle is the same as that of fall rowing, fall baseball, or fall track. Whether its work is light or heavy, it is at best only a conditioning process. But its chief justification is the chance it affords the dub to play with the University squad under University coaches. The numbers of men who report for spring practice, and who develop often into players of ability bear testimony to the value of the informal conduct of a sport apart from the hurry and hysteria of its regular season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPRING FOOTBALL | 3/23/1929 | See Source »

...hold an honorary degree of F.F.D. from the Electoral College--Doctor of Fenomenal Forecasting. So mine is the last word on presidential problems. At this point an impertinent CRIMSON editor has accused me of bluffing. He insinuates that though I know all about football I am the veriest dub on matters presidential. So I'll give you the inside dope on New England--just to show this fellow. Cut this out and paste it on your mirror. The morning after election you can wire me your congratulations (prepaid, please...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FORECAST PUNCTURES POLITICAL BUBBLE IN SENSATIONAL EXPOSE | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

...very glad I chose Harvard, Princeton was offered, but upon inquiring I was told that it bore more resemblance to a country dub than a university and that Harvard was the most cosmopolitan of your American colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAUD DESCANTS ON HARVARD AND U. S. | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

Though the stingy businessman's name was concealed, last week, it is natural for German reporters to dub him "Polish," just as Paris and London dailies hang their best anonymous stories on "an American," often when some prankish Argentine or tippling Russian is to blame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Stingy Pole? | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...American Farm Bureau Federation to join the agricultural subcommittee. Notable were omission of any attack upon the protective tariff and an implied promise to enforce the 15th Amendment (votes for Negroes). The latter, coming from the pen of Carter Glass of Virginia, was accepted as conventional flub-dub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Platform | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

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