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Word: gibbes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Braman Gibb's home run hit in the thirteenth, which took the far rightfield fence on the bound and scored Prouty, gave Harvard a 4 to 2 victory over Yale at New Haven yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GIBB'S HOMER WINS BASEBALL GAME IN 13TH FROM ELI, 4-2 | 6/19/1935 | See Source »

Yale's reunion classes plodded out to the field through the rain, saw the weather clear off, were amazed by the stellar pitching of Eli Ted Horton only to see their hopes shattered by Gibb's winning clout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GIBB'S HOMER WINS BASEBALL GAME IN 13TH FROM ELI, 4-2 | 6/19/1935 | See Source »

...clothes, habitually mumbles his speech around the stem of a well-caked briar pipe. At Blake's, the Herald Tribune saloon where he lunches with staff mates, he prefers Scotch whiskey. Late at night he is sometimes known to burst into song-always English ballads. A son, Arthur Gibb, attends Cambridge. A daughter. Dorothy Frances, is at Skidmore College...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: New Digester | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

Fitz, playing in Gibb's place in the Harvard Freshman backfield, bore the brunt of the ball carrying in the third period until his fumble deep in the Worcester territory cost him his prestige...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN ELEVEN TIES WORCESTER SCHOOL, 6-6 | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

...Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pa.), one Thomas Gibb, 19, paralytic Freshman, was initiated into the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity. Told to let himself down from a three-story window by a rope looped to the sash, he climbed out. The rope slipped, gave way, tumbling him to the ground. His parents, in China, were notified that he had suffered a broken hip, wrist, ankle, that he might die. One William Billow, likewise a Freshman, likewise a fraternity neophyte, was told to go to Harrisburg and get Governor John S. Fisher's signature. He was arrested breaking into a window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Outbursts | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

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