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Word: ganged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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McAuliff, Deacons back, accounted for his team's only counter in the second half when he scored on a ten-yard end run. "One-Man-Gang" Addington did most of the ball carrying to set up this touchdown. "Moose" Shattuck was the star for the Dormitory team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dormitory Eleven Deadlocks Kirkland Team in 6-6 Tie | 10/19/1940 | See Source »

Sheldon Dietz was still nursing bruises incurred by Harmon and the "Gang" in last Saturday's tussle. Burgy Ayres as a result continued in the number one pivot post and may keep right on "continuing" there for the starting whistle tomorrow...

Author: By David B. Stearna, | Title: ELEVEN POLISHES OFFENSE AS ARMY TEAM COMES TO TOWN | 10/18/1940 | See Source »

...scar-faced successor. Says Asbury: "Johnny Torrio is unsurpassed in the annals of American crime; he was probably the nearest thing to a real mastermind that this country has yet produced." Torrio boasted, "I own the police," had uniformed officers guard his costlier liquor shipments. In five years of gang warfare 500 mobsters were assassinated. Sniffed Mayor Big Bill Thompson, "It's all newspaper talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Down the Cesspool | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

...triumph, four games to three, gave the National League its first World's Championship since Frankie Frisch's Gas House Gang from St. Louis upset these same Tigers under almost identical circumstances...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 10/9/1940 | See Source »

Forest Evashevski, captain and one-man gang of Wolves, is Harmon's pathfinder extraordinary. Crimson ends and tackles will feel his blocking touch in the Stadium Saturday. A third member of the Michigan backfield is pile-driving Bob Westfall, the fullback. If Senior halfback Paul Kremer gets a definite medical okay, Coach Crisler will be able to field one of the best backfields of all time. It's useless to try and concoct new superlatives for Harmon; just try to imagine him as a combination of all the others. He is just as elusive as Dartmouth's little Ted Arice...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 10/9/1940 | See Source »

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