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Word: lined (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while Yale had suffered two defeats, one by West Point and the other by Brown. However, Harvard was unable to win, the game resulting in a scoreless tie, which under the circumstances seemed almost impossible. Harvard showed herself to be stronger, but could not get the ball over the line...

Author: By Percy LANGDON Wendell, | Title: NO MEMBER OF '13 EVER DEFEATED BY YALE IN FOOTBALL | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...after the kick-off we exchanged kicks with Yale for awhile and then how they fumbled and Storer recovered the ball for a touchdown? And how we got two goals from the field and were able again by a perfectly executed play to carry the ball over the goal line? Again how in the last quarter Yale tried the much-heralded Minnesota shift and were able to carry the ball to our ten-yard line? And how in the last few minutes, as Yale was going to try a goal from the field, they became confused and were unable...

Author: By Percy LANGDON Wendell, | Title: NO MEMBER OF '13 EVER DEFEATED BY YALE IN FOOTBALL | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...efforts. Some of the very ablest mercy work of the Spanish civil war has been done by the American Friends Service Committee, the Quaker organization to which Mrs. Roosevelt gives her radio earnings. The Friends have spent $50,000 in Spain for non-combatants on both sides of the line, giving and doing wherever the need arises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Appointment | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

While all this might seem as though France was backing down last week, the whole reason for the immense majorities voted to Premier Daladier was nationwide French confidence that he will resolutely take and maintain the firmest line with Italy and Germany, after first realistically taking losses which France has to take whether she likes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Cabinet of Defense | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

More expensive than all other modern improvements put together, however, scheduled to cost $160,000,000, nearly three times the annual revenue of Iran, is an 865-mile railroad line. No foreign country is to own any part of this line, no foreign loans are to be accepted. Conceived as a strategic railway, to enable the Iranians to repulse possible British invasion from the Persian Gulf, Russian invasion from the Turkomen Soviet Socialist Republic, the railroad line carefully avoids all Iran's big cities except Teheran, skirts round the Empire's more fertile districts, spans wide rivers, crosses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: 20th-Century Darius | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

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