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Word: great (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bill Cunningham of the Post: "Harvard, 14 to 7. Yale's been slugged around all season with a tough schedule. They'll put up a great fight in the first half, then probably tire. After that the Elis won't be able to do much more than pass and pray. Harvard has much better running hacks; but it should be a hell of a game of tactics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Favored In Ten of Eleven Sports Forecasts | 11/25/1939 | See Source »

...Meanwhile," the assistant professor commented, "the Chinese feel that they are fighting what may prove to be the first phase of a world conflict between democracies and dictatorships, and they look forward with confidence to victory if they are not denied support from Great Britain and the United States...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: China Will Stay Strongly United States Gardner | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

...whole tenure business in smooth-running order. Frozen associates have been accepted in the official vocabulary. In addition, a system of loaning and borrowing professorships among departments--a substitute for the President's Fund--is being worked out. These two plans supply ample basis for a great deal of flexibility in Harvard's promotion scheme. It now remains to be seen, however, to what use the Administration will put its new weapons. The true test will be the results of the appointment negotiations which are now taking place between individual departments and the Administration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TALKING TURKEY | 11/23/1939 | See Source »

...doubtful that all of these things will happen and that a very mediocre Bulldog eleven will transform itself into a great eleven Saturday. But any one of the three may conceivably take place when Captain Macdonald's men find themselves lined up with a Blue team facing them Saturday...

Author: By D. D. P., | Title: What's His Number? | 11/23/1939 | See Source »

...most probable development is that the Blue line operatives will rise to great defensive heights when the specter of Torbie Macdonald, Charley Spreyer, George Heidon, Fran Lee, and Joe Gardella becomes a reality. The Yale line averages 201 pounds from tackle to tackle, and many of them haven't forgotten how the high-powered Crimson attack stalled and sputtered in the mud of the Yale Bowl last November...

Author: By D. D. P., | Title: What's His Number? | 11/23/1939 | See Source »

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