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Word: risers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Completing two weeks of practice and in preparation for the curtain riser with Brown this weekend, head coach Dick Harlow sent his Varsity "red-shirts" out against the scrubs Saturday morning in a regular, four-period game with officials, timers, and other paraphernalia...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: VARSITY OVERWHELMS SCRUB GRIDMEN, 47-6 | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...Early Riser Carter is an old hand at cockcrow broadcasting, has been doing Early Risers Clubs since 1932 for WIP (Philadelphia), WMCA (Manhattan). He was once as offensively cheery as his glad-voiced fellows. He invented Jim Grouch for use as a horrible example on such Pollyanna programs, decided only last month, after a night of insomnia, that Jim Grouch had the right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Rise and Whine | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

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