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Word: high (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...High-grade backfield men were numerous all over the circuit, but this year top mention belongs to Cornell's superb blocking quarterback, pathfinder Walt Matuszezak. He was the heart of Coach Snavely's attack, the answer to any coach's prayer. There were brilliant running backs to run through the gaping holes he manufactured in enemy lines, and chief among them was Whit Baker...

Author: By Joseph P. Lyford, Donald Peddle, and Sheffield West, S | Title: Cornell Places Four Men on Crimson 1939 All-Ivy Eleven | 12/1/1939 | See Source »

...said that Germany would probably do nothing about Russia's wanton act, although the high officials in military, circles were surely "boiling with rage." Finland is of great military importance to Russia because in case of a war with another European country, the enemy might use Finland as a possession into the Soviet republic, or else they will make a protectorate of her. Of the two I think they will do the latter, because although the military significance is the same either way, the other Scandinavian states will be much less alarmed if Russia does base on which to land...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leontief Deplores Seizure of Finland; Suggests U.S. Make Vehement Protest | 12/1/1939 | See Source »

Cochrane is a local boy, and hails from Brookline. He became interested in radio at the age of fourteen while he was at Brookline High School, and received his license from the Federal Bureau of Communications before his fifteenth birthday. He must be able to send and receive 13 words per minute on the Morse key, know every detail of the construction of his apparatus, and besides that be absolutely up-to-date on the latest radio legislation. There are many rules that have been established for the control of the various short wave bands and unless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Radio Ham Operates Own Station in Weld, and Plans to Use It in Case of Emergency | 11/29/1939 | See Source »

Edmund Gilligan's Boundary Against Night (1938) was an ambitious, untidy, talented novel about the Boston Police Strike, included two Bannon brothers among its characters. White Sails Crowding is told by an earlier Bannon. No less high-blooded but tidier, it is a deliberately old-fashioned story of romantic adventure along the Grand Banks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grand Banks Romance | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...Tyler Peabody, Jr. '42 of Melrose, was second in the Sophomore competition, and will manage the Jayvee team. Third man in the competition was Richard M. Jackson, also of Chestnut Hill, who will be an associate manager and will also manage the Freshman team next fall. Peabody attended Melrose High, and Jackson is a graduate of Saint Palls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: R. G. PAINE TO BE '40 GRID MANAGER; KING WINS FOR '41 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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