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Word: fracases (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stahl's charges will face Bridgewater State Teachers College on Saturday afternoon, and a week from that date they entertain the Yale Junior Varsity in an afternoon fracas at the Indoor Athletic Building.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON CAGERS LOSE TO CORNELL 63-43 AT ITHACA; JAYVEES TRIUMPH | 3/4/1943 | See Source »

The Dartmouth fracas, much publicized in the local journals, was a little sloppier than its two furious predecessors, but made up in excitement what it lacked slightly in performance. Harvard fought back from behind on three occassions, and outplayed the visitors noticeably in the third period and during the overtime...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Skaters Tie Big Green, Spank Army in Gala Weekend | 2/23/1943 | See Source »

One protagonist in Washington's latest fracas is tough, shrewd Ferdinand Eberstadt, artillery captain in World War I, outstanding independent investment banker of the '305, and currently charged with WPB's vital materials division. The other is Charles E. Wilson, whom Donald Nelson brought to Washington to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Struggle for Power | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

The fracas started when the Erie Railroad proudly announced that underwriters Morgan, Stanley & Co. would handle a $14,000,000 Erie bond issue. Up rose peppery, dollar-minded Cyrus Stephen Eaton, boss of Cleveland's Otis & Co. and a Midwestern underwriter, who believes that New York financiers get far...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Victory for Morgan, Stanley | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

So draft-depleted are the visitors that only 3 men remain from the 20 holdovers who were scheduled to return this winter. Of the six men who start tonght, only two--goalie Ned Kelley and defenseman Chuck DeYoe--opened the last Harvard-Princeton fracas.

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Puckmen Favored Over Bengal Six In League Battle | 2/10/1943 | See Source »

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