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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The University team was given the ball in midfield starting the scrimmage and immediately made two first downs Mays, sophomore back, ripped off two yards putting the ball on the Second's 15 yard line. Harper added four yards and then Putnam uncorked a lateral pass to Mays who ran...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRISK SCRIMMAGE ON SOLDIERS FIELD | 9/24/1929 | See Source »

The famed young man, Private Christian Keener Cagle of Company B, does not find that being "the greatest football halfback since Red Grange" helps him with his studies, though J. A. K. Herbert sometimes does.† But neither does his fame diminish bis popularity at the Point because, newspaper and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cagle & Co. | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

In his youth he spent much time with gamblers. A boasted adventurer, he enlisted in the U. S. Army during the War. After his discharge he again became an adventurer. At various times he: ran a New York matrimonial bureau; collected "thousands of dollars" on a Ford car which he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Villainess v. Villain | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

At his first "take off" alone, as he tells it, his heart was up around his Adam's apple where it had no business. The more so when the usual little brown ambulance drew up to wait at one corner of the broad flying field.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Tomorrow You Go Solo!" Tomorrow I Fly Alone | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

He got his "ship" off somehow. Or rather, the "ship" got itself off. He could see groups of cadets and "monitors" ahead down the field break and run for the fences as he came tearing toward them-probably zigzagging every which way-"craziest 'solo' in history!" Just couldn't get...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Tomorrow You Go Solo!" Tomorrow I Fly Alone | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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