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Word: fouls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is little midnight sun or everlasting snow in Author Victor's account, but there are unforgettable scenes of greed, filth, and foul food. Sample: "Behind the hut there was an enormous heap of seal's fat which had been left untouched for years, and was now transformed into a kind of yellowish rock which exuded rivulets of pus that reflected the sunlight. The birds which alighted on it lost, first their feathers and then their lives. . . . In this sticky, slimy mass, Yosepi, Gaba, Kriwi, Doumidia and I floundered about with shouts of laughter. We gathered handfuls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Travelogue | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

HARVARD--Johns filed out to Stevens in deep left field. Gannett best out an infield tap to Besse at third base and stole second after Grondahl had looked at a third strike. Lupien lifted a high pop foul to Besse behind third base. One hit, no runs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How the Crimson Beat Yale Yesterday | 6/22/1939 | See Source »

YALE-Loved hoisted a high foul to Luplen. Grondahl threw out Alter third to first. Healey tossed out Collins, pitch to first. No hits, no runs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How the Crimson Beat Yale Yesterday | 6/22/1939 | See Source »

...rawboned farm boy with a fine, useful mind and a rare way with airplanes. He had an infectious grin that made vertical wrinkles up & down his weatherbeaten cheeks (as it still does). Around St. Louis, where he flew the St. Louis-Chicago mail run in fair and foul weather with calculated cunning, he had got along well-with reporters, had figured often in the news and liked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Press v. Lindbergh | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...Stahlmen threatened in the second and third, but just could not produce when the chips were down. Gene Lovett finally scored a run from third base in the fourth after a foul fly catch carried first baseman Linden right into the crowd. The Indiana, with Broberg again providing the big punch, all but sewed up the game in the seventh with two more tallies...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Stahlmen Fall to Second Place In E.I.L. by Failing in Pinches | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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