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Word: finn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...line will demand more than sleight-of-hand taming. HARVARD BROWN Flynn (200) LER Boothby (200) Houston (200) LTR Rougvle (216) Drvaric (190) LGR lacuele (188) Glynn (195) C Regine (190) Feinberg (183) RGL Hodesh (196) Gorczynski (210) RTL Waiters (220) Felt (178) REL Flick (210) Kenary (183) QB Finn (170) Moffie (160) LHR Nelson (185) Gannon (180) RHL Kozak (168) Lazzaro (170) FB Green...

Author: By Robert Carswell, | Title: Brown Stomps in Today as 13-Point Favorite | 11/15/1947 | See Source »

...Finn, who passes and calls plays for the Bruins, is probably the slickest T-quarter to grace Soldiers Field since Ed Clasby of the Boston College Eagles tested the Crimson in an early September scrimmage. Finn threw the winning pass against Yale last weekend...

Author: By Robert Carswell, | Title: Brown Stomps in Today as 13-Point Favorite | 11/15/1947 | See Source »

...Finn's backfield companion, Freddy Kozak, is a slippery runner and rates as one of the best punters in these parts, and behind him are two or three more almost as good...

Author: By Robert Carswell, | Title: Brown Stomps in Today as 13-Point Favorite | 11/15/1947 | See Source »

Train Trouble. Of course the Russians, though soothed by the fact that all of Finland's wartime anti-Russian leaders are in jail, or otherwise out of action, can still be annoying. Recently the Finns asked Moscow to let them run five trains a day in each direction across the Porkkala Peninsula (leased to Russia for 50 years as a naval base), which would cut three hours from the time required by the roundabout route to the north. Moscow agreed-if the trains were sealed, if they could be inspected by Red officials on entering and leaving the leased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: Autumn Cloud | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...border was a big Finnish lumberyard which would have done credit to Seattle. A birch-burning engine shunted briskly up & down the sidings. A row of roughly shaped granite rocks-crude anti-tank barriers left over from the war-dotted a hill; behind a brown horse, a sturdy, towheaded Finn who had already plowed several acres on either side was now plowing between the boulders. His neat house with its red tile roof and his brand-new red barn stood proudly at the top of the hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Write with the Heart | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

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