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Word: game (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hell he had on his mind. Any way I was ready for anything. He came back and says 'Got fifty?'. I reached in my pocket and took out a roll and handed him over fifty. 'That just about cleans me', I said. 'You see I'm new at the game, just started last week'. 'Oh, well in that case', he said, 'no one can say I'm a hog; here take ten back. Now run along and make your deliveries; I'll watch your car while you're gone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bootlegger Describes Interesting Incidents of a Very Adventurous and Hazardous Trade | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

...because I'd like to sell to him. I could make him a pretty good proposition. Is there anything in it for you fellows? Say, you could earn your way through college easy. Yes and then have a good deal left. I'll say it's a great game, but believe me you can't get much rest. The last few years that I have been in it have been plenty full of all kinds of excitement. They never really got me but they've come pretty close sometimes. Look at that. See right along the middle of that finger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bootlegger Describes Interesting Incidents of a Very Adventurous and Hazardous Trade | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

...undefeated Second teams will play their last game of the season today, when the Harvard Second eleven faces the Yale scrubs this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock on the Seconds' field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDEFEATED SCRUBS TO MEET ELI SECONDS TODAY | 11/22/1929 | See Source »

Coach J. L. Knox '98 sends his scrubs into their most important, and what promises to be their hardest, game of the year today, after they have spent a season helping the University squad get into condition for games by putting on the plays of opposing teams. Their development as an eleven has been hindered somewhat in this way, but their play against three outside teams, Tufts Seconds, St. Anselm's, and Brown Freshmen, all of whom they held scoreless, has shown them to possess power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDEFEATED SCRUBS TO MEET ELI SECONDS TODAY | 11/22/1929 | See Source »

...biennial dance held by the Harvard Union in honor of the Yale-Harvard football game will take place this evening from 10 until 3 o'clock. The music for the party will again be furnished by Roy Lamson's Harvardians, while a delegation from the Yale Glee Club has, as in former years, been invited to be present at the entertainment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE-HARVARD DANCE AT UNION THIS EVENING | 11/22/1929 | See Source »

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