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During the course of his speech he said, "I do not want just a good football team; I want a winning eleven. I want to play Yale, Harvard, and Princeton and lick them all. We shall blend effectiveness in coaching with showmanship and we want to fashion our style of play and develop our elevens on these bases, exactly as Knute Rockne has done at Notre Dame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PENN FOOTBALL COACH WANTS A CHANCE TO BEAT HARVARD | 2/1/1930 | See Source »

Died. Professor Ralph Hamilton Curtiss, 49, director of the University of Michigan's astronomical observatory since 1927, onetime (1900) observer at University of California, member of Lick Observatory Eclipse Expedition to Sumatra (1901); at Ann Arbor, Mich.; of pleurisy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 6, 1930 | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

...Guardsmen, weary of the eight-week fray, wanted to go home and lick their wounds in private. Democrats also craved a respite; the charge, false or true, that their action on the tariff was largely responsible for the stockmarket crash and business uncertainty made them skittish about pressing their victories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: The Young Turks | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...Sand Lick, Ky., one Henry Harp worked on the roads. Lightning cracked, knocked Mr. Harp down, split his false teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oct. 14, 1929 | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

When Baker Krusack hears about Louie and how Jencic is accepting defeat in love, he promises to fire Jencic if he does not lick Louie at once, and without getting drunk first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Peasant-Citizen | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

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