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Word: goals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steep path covered with a thick layer of soft wet mud. The forest was soaking wet and the dripping mist in the treetops cast a sepulchral gloom over everything. Here we met a man, emaciated, filthy, saturated to the skin, staggering blindly forward, murmuring the word "Indoo," India, the goal to which he had been pressing literally for months. This Chinese soldier was alone, a thousand miles from home, and dying on his feet. Yet he was still going. The next man we came to was a sturdy young man, about 20, carrying two great loads at the ends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 30, 1942 | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

...level. But not even Washington could claim to have planned it that way. All during the '30s when the Government was trying to push prices up via the Dr. George F. Warren sponsored commodity "rubber" dollar, and other devices, they stubbornly refused to go up to the 1926 goal. Now, when the Government is trying to hold prices down, they went up all too readily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cold Comfort for Planners | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

...goal, Steve O'Neil, with a year's experience at puck-dodging, has first call, but he may be pressed by Sophomore Gus Summers, who accounted for several shutouts on the Freshman...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/25/1942 | See Source »

...another cigarette and put on "Body and Soul." Three days after the game, and he still had a lot of vivid impressions. Players and spectators pounding anyone within reach after the field goal. More of the same after Richards' punt return. Then the picture got blue. Something seemed to snap when the referee called that play back, but Cleo's interception put the players back on their feet. And then there was the horrible nightmare of number 14 going diagonally across the field with nobody in Crimson around. The failure of that last-minute drive was just too much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 11/25/1942 | See Source »

Although recognized as a wartime must the Harvard Service Fund is falling considerably short of its $14,000 minimum goal. The money has been pledged, the students approached have responded magnificently, yet collections still resemble peacetime figures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weakest Link | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

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