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Word: quarter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard official added that in the last quarter, Harvard's so-called third string safety man, Walsh, showed he was able to dish out punishment as well as take it. Twice after he had tackled the mighty Army halfback Mr. Stephenson, said great man had to be held by his teammates to keep him from attacking Walsh with his fists...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

...other hand, the Stanford players which this writers talked to all considered the 1948 Army-Stanford game the dirtiest contest they had ever been in, and one implied that Emery Mitchell, start fullback and the team's best passer, had been deliberately crippled in the first quarter of that game...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

...Navy's star tackle, Whitmire, was injured in the first quarter against Army, and so it went down through the years. A case can be made against the Cadet elevens of recent years. I somehow feel that the numerous injuries to teams that play Army is not a preconceived plan, but merely a reflection of the dominant Military Academy theme that anything goes as long...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

...addition to the Holy Cross game films, Valpey also revived certain pertinent portions of the 1948 Princeton bout. The picture show lasted for an hour and a quarter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eleven Takes Light Work, Reports No More Injuries | 11/1/1949 | See Source »

...staff in the Studebaker plant from 28 to 39, talked each design over with engineers to see if it was feasible. From hundreds of tentative designs Loewy pulled a curve here, a hood there, a fender sweep yonder, then "mocked up" about a dozen experimental models in clay, one-quarter size, and worked on them. Says Studebaker's President Harold S. Vance: "I have seen Loewy shake his head in disapproval, then take out a knife and with one sweep correct the clay model to perfection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Up from the Egg | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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