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Word: overwhelms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nearly 100 years into North and South", said the Reverend A. A. Gilman D.D., President of Boone University at Wuchang, China, when interviewed recently by a representative of the CRIMSON. "It is only that it so happens that the military power, which from the beginning has tried to overwhelm popular attempts to create a modern government, has had its base in the north and has used ignorant northern coolies because it would be impossible to recruit a force against the popular movement in the south...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DECLARES CHINA NOT SECTIONALLY DIVIDED | 4/15/1922 | See Source »

...this goes to press, half of the College is already well on the way to Princeton. By boat, by train, by motor, the Crimson flood is descending on the Tiger to unite this afternoon in one tremendous wave which is to overwhelm the supporters of the Black and Orange. Greatly will the team be aided by this section of Harvard which will be with them in the Palmer Stadium. But besides all the cheering thousands in New Jersey, there will be still others taking no less a share in the great struggle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE WILL TO VICTORY" | 11/5/1921 | See Source »

...Overwhelm Richmond...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY TENNIS TEAM IS VICTORIOUS IN FOUR CONTESTS | 4/25/1921 | See Source »

...football team deserves the highest tribute possible. Tonight at eight thirty-five o'clock this same aggregation which traveled over six thousand miles to defeat a plucky eleven from the University of Oregon arrives in Boston. A crowd must be at the station to meet them, to overwhelm them with thanks and congratulations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EIGHT THIRTY-FIVE TONIGHT. | 1/6/1920 | See Source »

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