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Word: mahan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...responsible for the coaching and its success. . . . Perhaps I am spoiled as I have seen West Point play three games this year. . . . There are at least a score of available, experienced coaches and successful professional players, including some former Harvard players, such as Charley Buell, Charley Crowley, Eddie Mahan and "Chuck" (sie) Peabody who could make good and restore Harvard football prestige, but unfortunately Valpey is not one of them...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

...started it, we two, and here we are today, playing the game that was once all things to all men and is now nothing to anyone but us. We had Pudge Heffelfinger and Walter Camp, P. D. Haughton and Ned Mahan, and we were Kings together in those days. Today we have four victories between...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LXVI | 11/19/1949 | See Source »

...have said "gosh" or "darn it." Mr. Kennedy said she threw a $40 silver hand mirror at either him or another member of the cast. Miss Blondell said it was not a mirror, it was a Kleenex and she wished it had been a brick. Princeton Police Chief Edward Mahan said all he knew was that he got this call from the theater and sent three cops to break up the brawl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hail & Farewell | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

Some such emotion has crept into the work of most biographers of Horatio Nelson, England's No. 1 naval hero. Even the U.S.'s precise, levelheaded Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan allowed the legend of Nelson to skew up the accuracy of his portrait. British Admiral Sir W. M. James (who spent 18 months during World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Naval Person | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

While the Big Three banner at present signifies much less than the one-third ratio it bears to the Big Nine title, it still means much more to the white-haired Brahmins (of the age of Brickley, Mahan, and Horween, to mention a few) who will in all probability empty wall Street on Saturday in favor of Palmer Stadium...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Valpey Orders Evening Workouts for Eleven | 11/4/1948 | See Source »

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