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Word: fours (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach E. J. Brown '96 was unable to give any definite plans for the prospects of an outdoor session, but expressed his hope, if conditions turn out favorably, to get four or five shells into the water...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CREWS MAY TAKE TO OPEN WATER ON CHARLES TODAY | 3/5/1929 | See Source »

When they walk abroad in Boston, where in her father's old brick house in Brimmer Street she lives during his exploring absences, or in Winchester, Va., where Byrds have long had their homes, Commander and Mrs. Byrd usually march side by side with their four children (Richard Evelyn Jr., Evelyn Bolling, Katherine Agnes, Helen) ranged behind them. In their home he has a ceremonious way of listening to her. He stands before her, heels together, tall slim body bent deferentially towards her. That was the way he used to stand when, as naval lieutenant and Harvard undergraduate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mrs. Byrd's Land | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...creaks a little, but the spirit which the poetry fails to achieve is incorporated in the superb acrobatics of the only living actor who is also a great athlete. He has his best rôle again ? D'Artagnan. Cardinal Richelieu, crafty, red-robed, plots endlessly to separate the four swashbucklers who at night sleep side by side in one wide bed and finally die side by side in one battle. Under the window ledge a saddle waits; one leap, and rescue drums toward the girl (Marguerite de la Motte) who, drooping like a flower, dies in his arms. First...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 4, 1929 | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...competition will last approximately eight weeks and will consist of three or four hours work in the boathouses plus short evening meetings with the University managers. The winner of the competition will become manager of the 1932 crew and, with the second man who will be given the post of assistant manager, will receive numerals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Competition Opens | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

Ample proof of the omniscience proceeding from four years in New Haven is to be found in the confidence with which the Seniors attack such problems as "which living man do you admire most?" But here there develops a weakness in the works, for though the majority comes out stoutly for Lindy or the great American home, four Seniors seem still hopelessly introverted at the end of a college course spent solely with studying their fellow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE THINKS BEST | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

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