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Word: evens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...starter in a little laboratory experiment the other day. Delaware has lost six games and tied one out of seven attempts and has succeeded in counting only two touchdowns all told. If you can find a worse record, why perform your own test and prove the above thesis even more conclusively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

...Jack Oakie, as a hoofer turned freshman, discovers that the Alma Mater song of his school is too dirge-like for his taste. There upon he writes a jazz version of his own, which he calls "Alma Mammy" and sings in his best Jolson manner before the assembled students. Even the football game is not taken too seriously for instance the dumb and lethargic Swedish tackle becomes the hero of the battle because his sweetheart playfully pots him with her air rifle just before the ball is passed, thus opening him to tear great holes in the opposing line...

Author: By Richard WATTS Jr., | Title: Talkies Even More Uniform Than Silent Productions--Backstage, College Lead | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

...with the greatest possible forethought so that coming generations will not find themselves hampered by architectural features built with only the present in mind. To this end the partitions between seminars, lecture halls, and so forth have been built with the understanding that they may some day be rearranged. Even the reading tables are built in sections so that they can be lengthened or changed...

Author: By The YALE Daily news, (SPECIAL TO THE HARVARD CRIMSON.) | Title: YALE EMBARKS ON BIG BUILDING PROGRAM | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

...require nearly 1,000 additional rooms for undergraduates in order to supply them with proper housing and we should need to proceed in this matter even though we did not enter upon the so-called House Plan...

Author: By The YALE Daily news, (SPECIAL TO THE HARVARD CRIMSON.) | Title: YALE EMBARKS ON BIG BUILDING PROGRAM | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

...Take it From Me," one must give all columnists "An Even Break." Whether you are "In Broken Fields" or not, travelling "Down the Line" invariably brings you to "Lining Them Up." But whoever has been courageous enough to get this far cannot avoid that bottom-of-the-column feeling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Men Will Feel More at Home in Rounded Stadium--Bottle Royal is Promised for Today | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

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