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Word: jacked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...started when Jack Baldwin, San Jose, California, sophomore, tried to hang on to his local reputation an a Don Juan and five dollars, which an attempt to kiss twenty girls out of twenty-two in a half hour. Eight or the girls demurely denied him his fare. The fourteen maidens who succumbed offered him just consolation for the lost fiver...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B, U, TAKES LEAD IN KISS RACE; CRIMSON YET TO CHALLENGE | 4/14/1939 | See Source »

Before the Duke tilt, the team got wind of the fact that Jack Coombs, Blue Devil coach, was anticipating a pushover, having seen the Crimson's uninspired performance against North Carolina the day before. Harvard rallied that day to overcome a five run Duke lead, and held the crack home outfit on even terms until fielding lapses in the seventh saw Coombs' men forge into the lead...

Author: By Thedore R. Barneit, | Title: Batting Power Key to Nine's League Prospects This Year | 4/12/1939 | See Source »

Before vacation, two positions, stroke and five, were worrying Coach Tom Bolles. At the stroke oar there were four possibilities, Bill Rowe, Jack Wilson, Colton Wagner, and Barr Comstock. From the outset it has seemed that Bill Rowe was the favorite. Last year he stroked the Jayvee shell. Bolles rates all four men as good strokes, but naturally not up to the standard set by Spike Chase last year...

Author: By William W. Tyng, | Title: VARSITY BOATING APPEARS DECIDED | 4/11/1939 | See Source »

Wolfe. Announced for publication next June is the first section of Thomas Wolfe's posthumous novel, The Web and the Rock, Next month's Scribner's will carry a 15,000-word Wolfe novelette, The Party at Jack's. This month's American Mercury has Wolfe's Portrait of a Literary Critic, a mock tribute to a corkscrewy reviewer. Next issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review will carry Wolfe's A Western Journey, diary of his trip to the Northwest last summer, taken from pencil notes written at night, or scribbled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Literary Life | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Floyd Stahl's charges got off to a good start Monday against the Naval Training Station at Norfolk, Virginia, crushing them to the tune of a 15-2 score. Slim Curtiss, Charlie Brackett and Jack Schwede shared the pitching assignment, with Curtiss carrying off top honors. Reino Grondahl smashed out a three-bagger and two singles in six trips to the plate. Bill Tully hit Harvard's lone home run of the series...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASEBALL TEAM MAKES FAIR SPRING SHOWING | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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