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Word: foul (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although conceded a seven goal handicap at the start of the encounter, a foul by Quinlan took a half point from the Cossack score, while H. I. Nicholas '31, J. P. Cotton '29, and R. C. Walker '31, were building up the Harvard total with frequent tallies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COSSACKS OUTCLASSED BY SECOND CRIMSON POLO TRIO | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

Critics usually fall foul of the Rhodes Scholars for their failure to approximate the vision of Rhodes Scholars which exists in the minds of their critics. Much obviously unfair criticism has been directed against the Rhodes Scholars for their failure thus for to lead the world, or at least the English-speaking world. To destructive critics who take this position, one would like to suggest that it is just as fair to condemn education in general because educated men recently made such a mess of guiding the world in the ways of peace and civilization. The Rhodes Scholars have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RHODES SCHOLARS UPHELD BY CORRY | 1/9/1929 | See Source »

Stormed Mr. Justice Humphreys, in his charge to the jury: "Perjury and foul perjury has been committed in this court. . . . Your duty is to say whether you are satisfied whether the perjury is on the side of these two constables. If so you ought to convict them. . . . I am not referring to the fact that the wretched girl is either a prostitute or something near it. That is beside the point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Plank, Plank, Plank | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

Forecast is injured! Word arrived to this effect late yesterday evening from coastguards near Old Point Comfort. The telegram reads: "Harvard Crimson stop have in custody two men stop have given name of Forecast stop found floating in bay on empty cases stop elder in serious condition claims foul play by betting ring stop have asked us to communicate with you stop please advise. Sergeant Curdle, Coast Guard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BETTING RING NAILS JOE IN ATTEMPT TO BLOCK RETURN | 9/27/1928 | See Source »

...once flayed Publisher Hearst as follows: "He has not got a drop of good, clean, pure, red blood in his whole body. And I know the 'color of his liver, and it is whiter, if that could be, than the driven snow. . . . That fellow nearly murdered my mother. . . . Foul, dirty pen . . . slimy ink. . . . Greatest living enemy of the people whose cause he pretends to espouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hearst v. Smith | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

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