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Word: lambing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both Kirkland and Calhoun suffered mediocre seasons, but the Deacons lightened up their defense in their last three games. If Kirkland can throttle the Calhoun attack, perhaps the power plays of Tom Lamb and Frank Nolan can roll up a winning score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Football Teams Face Yale College Squads Today | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

Probable Kirkland starting lineup: lo, Samoileff; lt, Ingham; ig, Thompson; c, Voriacas; rg, Zukoski; rt, Holmes; re, Eaton; qb, French; lh, Nolan; rh, Larkin or Robbings; fb, Lamb. Winthrop vs. Davenport...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Football Teams Face Yale College Squads Today | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

...hockey season came in like a lamb. For almost a month the National Hockey League played before unfilled houses as though every man's heart was set on winning the Lady Byng Trophy (hockey's award for gentlemanly conduct). Last week in Chicago Stadium, hot-tempered Defenseman Kenny Reardon of the Montreal Canadiens put an end to all that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Timber! | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...Deacons relied on power plays from their single wing attack to grind out their yardage, and lone touchdown. It took Kirkland 19 plays to march from its own 30-yard line in the second period to the Leverett four, where fullback Tom Lamb scored on a line plunge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deacons, Bunnies Tie, 6-6; Bellboys Beat Dudley 26-0 | 11/12/1949 | See Source »

...Graveses (his wife; six children). But because he is one of the most talented and erudite men alive, he is incapable of writing anything that is not of some stature and interest. The Islands of Unwisdom cannot be compared to his best novels (I, Claudius, Claudius the God, Sergeant Lamb's America), but it yields a rich vegetation of outlandish history, and its narrative is skillfully knocked together by a carpenter who knows his nails and timber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet's Pot | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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