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Word: miff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Clark Hodder will use Jack Cunningham, Peter Stone, and Miff Stons as his second line, and will keep George Olive, Watson Lowecy, Charile Butcher, George Aldrich, and Mike Coburn as reserves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/7/1936 | See Source »

...When it comes to individual "swing" men, why did you fail to mention other idols of the modern musician, such as the Dorsey Brothers, "Miff" Mole, "Red" Nichols, Vic Burton (drums), "Saxey" Mansfield (tenor sax), Joe Venuti (violin), Irving Brodsky (piano) and Dick McDonough (guitar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 10, 1936 | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

Coach Clark Hodder altered his first two lines, sending Walter Hunnewell and Jim Jameson, previous second-liners, out to flank Captain Harding. The second line, therefore, found three Milton Academy puckmen, Pete Stone, Miff Scaife, and the newly elevated Jack Cunningham. The latter figured in three of his line's four tallies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1939 SEXTET DEFEATS NEWTON HIGH TEAM 10-2 | 1/9/1936 | See Source »

...forward walls. Austie Harding, first line center, the fastest skater on the squad and the possessor of an almost infallible shot, will undoubtedly hold his position among the favored. The Milton Academy wingmen who seem to be slated to flank the Noble's flash are Pete Stone and Miff Scaife. Eight of the Crimson goals against Framingham were rung up by this trio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/19/1935 | See Source »

...teach me to play the trumpet and give me his old associate, Miff Mole, as trombonist, I'll be very pleased to swap jobs, income and worries about taxes and expenses with him. And in addition I'll throw in a fine assortment of rejected manuscripts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 7, 1935 | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

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