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Word: prepped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yardlings will outweigh the Academy team with an average of 180 pounds in the line and 175 in the backfield. The schoolboys have one victory to their credit this season, a 25-0 win over Lawrence Academy. They are heavy and fast, many of them having several years of prep school experience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN WILL MEET WORCESTER ACADEMY | 10/19/1935 | See Source »

...this year's green material, but that it seemed to be a bit lighter than usual. So that he can devote all his time to impressing the fundamentals of a quick shoot-away and slo-o-ow recovery to his bargemen, he has turned the experienced Freshmen, including three prep school captains, over to Charlie Whiteside, varsity mentor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 100 FRESHMEN COMPETE FOR POSITIONS ON CREW | 10/1/1935 | See Source »

...yearling crews into shells, but only two of these average above 160 pounds, leaving about 16 men who have rowed before eligible for the Freshman crew next spring. This means that there is a much greater op- portunity for the 1939 bargemen than last year, when there were 32 prep school veterans. All those who raced against Yale in the Freshman race last June had seen shell service before entering college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 100 FRESHMEN COMPETE FOR POSITIONS ON CREW | 10/1/1935 | See Source »

...father is president of Kentucky's Berea College and his younger brother vice president of Yale-in-China, but Bob Hutchins might never have turned to Education if it had not been for beauteous Maude McVeigh. He was 22, penniless and wanted to be a lawyer, but a prep-school teaching job looked like the only way he could earn enough to support a wife. Like nearly all university presidents' wives, Maude Hutchins has been roundly criticized for snobbishness. Mrs. Hutchins, however, is a New Englander with a mind of her own. Scores of faculty folk have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Midway Man | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

...former became the latter and the latter became the former, with a third boat hovering in the van as a dark horse. It's all very simple. Anyone who wishes to become a member of the Princeton Crew should communicate with the proper authorities. Do not be discouraged. Origin, prep school, former experience, are of no more importance than the size of your underwear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 4/25/1935 | See Source »

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