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Word: passingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parade halted. Leaders indignantly shouted back to their followers, "Les flics ne veulent pas qu'on passe!" (The cops won't let us pass.) The answer was a sullen rumble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Counterpoint | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...seesawing rubbernecks at a tennis match, eyes kept shifting from the Scoreboard clock to the field. Mighty Army was trailing Pennsylvania, 20-19, and there was less than a minute to play. Army's cool, spindle-legged Quarterback Arnold Galiffa called one fruitless off-tackle smash, one pass that went incomplete. Then he eyed the clock, too. Thirty-five seconds left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Production-Line Football | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...Blue picked up its first tally in the second quarter, and was soon threatening again from the twenty yard line. Sandy Evans snared a Yale pass and started off for the Eli goal line. He picked up 80 yards before being pulled down on the 10 yard line. Saybrook's fine defense kept Adams from pushing across, but the Gold Coast defense matched it for the rest of the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Takes House-College Garlands; All Other Houses Fall Before Yale Rivals | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...raining when the opening whistle blew. It began to sleet in the second quarter, when Foley threw a 25-yard pass to end Don Daughters for six points. Yale reared back to score, and seemed sure to kick the extra point, but All-East guard Al Kevorkian crashed through to save the half-time...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: Thrilling Upsets Spark Harvard-Yale Clashes | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...neither demonstrative nor buried in gloom. He is more likely to pat an end on the back as he comes out of the game after missing a sure-fire pass than to laud a halfback in hopes of making him an All-American. And he always figures Harvard's chances in any game at about what they should...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Valpey Puts Football on Road Back | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

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