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Word: pasts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Jordan violates his own principles of line play, however. He just just has had to adapt them to a physical framework that the casual observer would associate more with stolid immovability than shiftiness. He has had plenty of opportunity to do so in his long and varied athletic past, which extends back to the late '20s, when he was an all around school star at Clare, Michigan...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Football, Basketball, Wrestling; All In Butch Jordan's Repertoire | 11/18/1948 | See Source »

True, he makes a convincing summary in his first review of "Harvard's and Radcliffe's literary magazines in the recent past" but his conclusions are unclear. There is or there is not "readability" or "need for clarification." He seldom takes the trouble to give examples or say what he is talking about. Mr. Bush writes well in "places," Mr. Rinehart has poor dialogue "in places," etc., and we are promised an image at the end of Miss Rich's poem that is "in itself one of the finest bits of writing to appear since the war in Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hits Signature Review | 11/18/1948 | See Source »

...Before boarding the midnight sleeper, he bought several newspapers, "to get a preliminary idea of the game and pick up some of the atmosphere." Previously he had studied all available movies of the Dartmouth team in action, and had gone over scouting reports on the Big Green for the past couple of years...

Author: By Steve Cady, | Title: End Coach Madar Won All-American Honors at Michigan Under Valpey | 11/17/1948 | See Source »

...Crimson scored its second goal in 8:50 of the fourth quarter when speedy Jon Spivak, playing at the right inside position, tapped the ball past the Tech goalie. Six minutes later, Charlie Weiss, Spivak's partner on the revised first line that played most of the second half, blasted in an angle shot from the right outside position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soccer Team Shuts Out MIT, 4-0 | 11/17/1948 | See Source »

Sanders Theater has caused nothing but trouble in the past two years. Two active dramatic clubs, a rejuvenated band, two orchestras, and the Glee Club-Choral Society have wrangled for space in the ancient auditorium, while Dean Watson and the Corporation office have split the handling of the conflicting requests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sanders Snarl | 11/17/1948 | See Source »

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