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Word: partisan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spoiler role. Last week it administered to Princeton its only home league loss, and came close to upsetting Yale Saturday. Dartmouth must rule as the definite favorite, however, on the basis of its prior 74 to 59 win at Hanover, although that contest was played before a very partisan Dartmouth crowd...

Author: By John A. Rava, | Title: Dartmouth Five Favored Tonight Over Crimson in Crucial Contest | 3/7/1957 | See Source »

Skeels started the evening off well for the varsity as he clearly outclassed Brown's Steve Howe, 5 to 0. The highly partisan howling crowd gave Howe an ovation for having escaped being pinned...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Brown Defeats Wrestlers; Only Skeels, Foster Win | 3/2/1957 | See Source »

These vote-getting practices, the products of two years of narrowly partisan, ungentlemanly, and short-sighted leadership, serve as one more indication that the HYRC has lost its right to boast of being both the biggest and the best undergraduate organization in the Yard. Members of the HYRC, past and present, can only be ashamed of their association with an organization which has now degenerated to the very cheapest level of political activity. Robert W. Haney...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HYRC AD NAUSEAM | 2/28/1957 | See Source »

...Green victory, however, does not seem to be in line, for in the teams' last meeting, the Crimson trampled Dartmouth, 8 to 3, at Hanover before a wildly partisan crowd...

Author: By James W. B. benkard, | Title: Favored Crimson Hockey Team Meets Dartmouth Sextet Tonight | 2/27/1957 | See Source »

...resolution was first introduced, had decided, out of loyalty to Ike and the G.O.P., to support the President's wording. Backed up by New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, Knowland called committee Republicans to his office, urged them to side with Ike in what had turned into a partisan fight. When it came to voting last week, the Republicans, in a rare display of discipline, held 100% firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Word for the Middle East | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

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