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Word: pete (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that point Boston had 28 points and Harvard had 31, with the relay, worth seven points to the winner, still to be swum. But Powers, Moore Stowell, and Bosworth, the strongest team Coach Pete Petersen could muster, took the event...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Swimmers, Pressed to Last Event, Win Over Boston Boys' Club in Hardest Meet So Far | 2/10/1938 | See Source »

...main feature of the Boys' Club squad, however, is its well-balanced strength in all events, including the breast and backstroke. They constitute a serious hazard to the Yardlings' clean slate of victories this season. Freshman Coach Pete Petersen delares that the Bostonians are good enough so that the outcome of the meet is just about unpredictable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hardest Meet So Far Will Be Provided by Boston Club Swimmers | 2/9/1938 | See Source »

...third inning may look like a bum in the seventh-was last week swapping tales with local barflies in the Empire Hotel at Springfield, Ill., when he was informed of his fortunate rescue from obscurity. One of the most effective right-handed pitchers of all time, Grover Cleveland ("Old Pete") Alexander, now 50, could review a career that reached its third inning in the 1926 World Series (between the Cardinals and Yankees) when, after a night of carousing in celebration of two victories for the Cardinals, he was called from the bullpen at the crucial point of the crucial game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Immortals | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...MEMBERS OF THE SULLIVAN HOUSEHOLD, and ATTENDANTS 3 LARGE SULLIVANS Parts taken by sundry members of the O'Hallahan family CHARLES FRANCIS APTED, of Cambridge . . . . . . . . . . . . Part taken all by himself TWO STUDENT ADVISORS . . . . . Parts taken by Sam Silversmith and George Goldsmith J.V. WONTWEE, friend to Snuffy . . . Part taken by Pete Peewee, Harvard Crew Captain: 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1912 LESTER WOLVE, of Istanebull . . . . Part taken by Lester Wolve, Envoie plenipotentiare extraordinaire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMING SOON | 1/7/1938 | See Source »

While Congress did precious little (see col. 2). while many another member of his Administration grew jittery about depression, the President exhibited his peculiar capacity for being comforted by crises. At press conference Correspondent Raymond ("Pete") Brandt of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch asked what the President meant to do about recession now that it was growing worse. Said the President, "It is an assumption. Pete, don't tie my hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Roosevelt Week: Dec. 20, 1937 | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

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