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Word: fro (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sophomore Phil Carson is undoubtedly the individual star of the Brown team. Usually entered in the 220 and 440, he starred in prep school at Mercersburg, was last year's yearling captain fro the Bruins, and is expected to break every New England college record on the books this season...

Author: By Burton VAN Vort, | Title: Brilliant Brown Swimmers Face Crimson Here Tonight | 1/14/1942 | See Source »

...second squadron arrives; they try to traverse the city but are thrown to and fro by the A.A. fire which is now thundering out, and spitting forth glowing streamers of tracer bullets. We put on our steel helmets and take as much cover as possible for showers of shrapnel fall, fragments of steel cutting slap through the slate roof and tearing off hunks of stone from the walls. The house seems to lift off its foundations as a nearby gun opens fire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALUMNUS DESCRIBES LIFE AS SCOTTISH AID RAID SPOTTER | 9/19/1941 | See Source »

...last week seven tons of Duralumin "tractor," driven by a twelve-cylinder automobile engine, chugged into the surf of Guantanamo Bay and set out to sea. Instead of sinking, the Buck Rogersian vehicle paddled to & fro at ten miles an hour, turned, charged the beach and landed a party of U. S. Marines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Swimming Tractor | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...collections fall into three groups: Trotsky's manuscripts, his to-and-fro correspondence with Russian leaders, and a group of 15,000 "international archives" covering the years of Trotsky's exile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WIDENER RECEIVES PERSONAL ARCHIVES OF THE LATE LEON TROTSKY IN DEAL | 9/5/1940 | See Source »

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