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Word: quaker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thursday against Tufts, the Varsity was pitiful behind the twirling of Royal Victor, Slim Curtine, and A1 Colwell, but made a complete reversal in form with Ingalls telling on Saturday quelling the Quaker bat-wavers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Walsh or Shean Slated to Twirl Against Wildcat Nine | 5/25/1937 | See Source »

...expense of the amazed Pennsylvanian pitcher and catcher, the alert Crimson baserunners marked up a third tally in the sixth. Frankie Owen hit sharply to the left garden, stole second and wound up at third when the Quaker backstop tossed one into centerfield. Johns walked and so effectively rattled Jeffers that he reached the middle sack as Owen slid home on the pitcher's balk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IMPROVED NINE WHIPS PENNSYLVANIANS 4-1 | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

Dick Dorson fell to a 5-7, 6-4, 4-6 defeat at the hands of the number one Quaker, G. Dunn. Lowman (H) defeated H. Albert 6-3, 8-6; Hauck (H) defeated E. Mellor 6-1, 6-2; L. Reps (P) defeated Captain Fuld...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racqueteers Drive to 6-3 Victory Over Pennsylvania | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...Public Powerman Scattergood, the $46,000,000 deal crowned a 35-year-old dream. Born 65 years ago on a New Jersey farm which had been in his Quaker family since 1683, Mr. Scattergood learned about power at Rutgers (Class of 1893), became a Master of Mechanical Engineering at Cornell, went South to teach at the Georgia School of Technology. But the tuneful libel on Georgia Tech could be applied only to Engineer Scattergood's health, which was so badly wrecked after two years that he had to ramble off to Southern California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Breakfast Deal | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...election-supervisors at New Rochelle barred him from voting, called him an alien. He moved to Greenwich Village, died there while fighting off the churchmen who flocked to his bedside hoping to save the blackest soul in U. S. history. Though he asked to be buried in a Quaker cemetery, not even the Quakers would receive him. Repentant Journalist Cobbett dug up Paine's bones, intending to transplant them to Liverpool, then-according to Author Pearson-absentmindedly mislaid them somewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mankind's Friend | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

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