Search Details

Word: platter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...University of Southern California heavyweight broke his second record of the day, this time his own, when he tossed the discus 151 feet 3 3-8 inches. Gerkin and Hoffman finished close behind him in the platter sailing even. In the pole vault Barnes, Olympic and Association champion, was the cynosure of all eyes in the Stadium but he was content to qualify along with four others at the 12 foot mark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coast Stars Scintillate as 50th Intercollegiate Meet Opens | 5/29/1926 | See Source »

...pull them through to victory. The home nine expects to have little trouble in keeping the light-hitting Crimson outfit from scoring, and is confident that such swatters as Fields and Tremper, in spite of Harvard's recent shut-outs, will be able to drive enough runs across the platter to assure the Quaker lads the first game of the series...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PENNSYLVANIA NINE FACES CRIMSON ON QUAKER CITY FIELD | 5/8/1926 | See Source »

...Cutts, slightly out-pitching the 1929 mounds-men. Prior, the newly elected leader, it was who took it personally upon himself to humble the University representatives, and while his mates held the regulars to two tallies, Prior, with a double and a home run, chased three markers across the platter for Coach Davidson's outfit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CUSHING GAME ACID TEST FOR CRIMSON FRESHMEN | 4/28/1926 | See Source »

Consider the cod. Although his family is only second on the platter, he is perhaps the most valuable. Even his liver, when pressed under heat, exudes oil of great medicinal worth. And his tongue is a Parisian delicacy. Cod?a big creature?is partial to olive-green covering and is distinguished by a subtle beard at the tip of the lower jaw. The cod catch on the Newfoundland coast has not been seriously diminished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hoover on Fish | 5/18/1925 | See Source »

Little Sewanee, which had appeared to Vanderbilt to be all picked, stuffed and ready for the oven, sprang from the platter and carved up the conquerors of Minnesota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Dec. 8, 1924 | 12/8/1924 | See Source »

Previous | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | Next