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Word: fakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Starting right off in the first quarter, the Deacons carried the ball 70 yards down the field on a powerful sustained march, the first time they got hold of it. Sam Cantwell scored and the extra point was made on one of the Kirkland specialties: a fake placement, with an end run, finally ending with a pass deep into the end zone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Takes House-College Garlands; All Other Houses Fall Before Yale Rivals | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

Guided by Author Fenwick's inflexible hand, the common man may well proceed to great rewards. The chief reward: being safe from snubs. Author Fenwick deplores "fake fireplaces filled with a fake coal fire, lighted by electricity," deprecates "a shawl on the piano" and " 'popup' cigarette boxes , . . decorated with a scotty or a nude." But she shows that her judgment has less to do with taste than with fashion when she advocates "tables made of old painted tin trays on a modern stretcher base" and "odd saucers of Lowestoft china ... as ashtrays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ahoy, Polloi! | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...game, only the blindly partisan thought the Crimson had a chance. They groped through the defense formations, and faltered against the passing. So Brown rumbled down the field and scored on a pass from Flnn to Nelson. A few moments later, Brown set up another score on a fake field goal pass...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Crimson Teamwork Spills Powerful, Favored Bruins | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...kickoff and marched straight down the field for their second touchdown. Spinning and driving through monstrous holes in the Mastodon line, Winter, Thompson, and Jerry Glynn gained almost at will, Winters scoring easily on a first down from the four. Hollis French made the extra point on a fake kick on which he ran around...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Tops Eliot by 14-7; League in Tie | 11/12/1948 | See Source »

...final blow was landed when the Lampoon started distributing throughout the Princeton stands the fake issue of the CRIMSON pictured above. Its announcement of the death of Princeton's Coach Roper completely took in the Princeton stands. And one person sitting in those stands was Mrs. Roper, who almost collapsed herself when she glanced at the bogus issue...

Author: By Sedgwick W. Green, | Title: Lampoon Nearly Ended Tiger Rivalry | 11/5/1948 | See Source »

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