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Word: jumbos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although a non-league game, great rivalry has arisen between the two schools because of the closeness of the contests and because of last year's burst of hostilities ignited by the challenge of the Jumbo coach, Ken Nash, to go the Well-known "20 rounds" with the Crimson mentor, Fred Mitchell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Curtiss or Walsh Scheduled to Twirl Against Underdog Tufts Nine Today | 5/19/1937 | See Source »

...transcontinental rail, plane and bus services; its cheap power from Boulder Dam; its natural resources of gold, silver, copper, zinc and lead, from comparatively old Virginia City, Mountain City, Goldfield and the scattered "ghost towns," to the great open pit mines at Ely and such recent strikes as Jumbo in the northwest; its sheep and cattle; its agricultural industries (alfalfa, turkeys, cantaloupes) in the Fallen irrigation district; its abundant game-deer, antelope, bighorn sheep, duck, pheasant, sage hen, quail and myriad trout-there is little for them to say except that Nevada is so undeveloped that it is one place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEVADA: One Sound State | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

Edward F. Prichard 2L showed student opposition as well as faculty to be acute, declaring that now a teacher can be dismissed for any slight variation from the "beaten path of mumbo-jumbo that is too often the bane of our educational system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MATHER SEES OATH AS DEFEAT OF EDUCATION | 3/2/1937 | See Source »

...long victory streak when it faces the Crimson in a meet that is assuming the proportions of the Yale Bowl jinx . . . . the confident, Varsity grapplers face a mediocre Yale team on the Medford mat and Harvey Ross faces the best wrestler in New England at his weight in the Jumbo 118 pound matman . . . . the Polo team will also be at New Haven against the Elis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/27/1937 | See Source »

Died. Mrs. Fannie Rosenberg, 62, mother of Showman Billy Rose (Jumbo, Fort Worth Centennial); of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 21, 1936 | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

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