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Word: romp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took it on the chin Saturday, 23-13, at the hands of the sunkist college of co-ed dreamdom. And it was no freak win. The weather was clear and the track fast. All-American Captain Bob MacLeod and his mates Bill Hutchinson and Colby Howe were due to romp. Stanford, however, held them to 77 yards by rushing and only seven of Hutch's 17 passes found receivers...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Dartmouth Lets Down Hopes Of East in Defeat on Coast | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

Robert "Pi" Truesdale '41 was not going to let Cornell romp off with the goal posts as well as the long end of a 20 to 0 football score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON HORATIO CONQUERS ENEMY; SAVES GOAL POSTS | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...back, and Ben Smith, converted end, is good and healthy at this stage. Cohen is better defensively, but Smith rates the offensive edge due to his speed; he is reputed the second fastest on the squad. Both Cohen and Smith negotiating long, spinning runs for touchdowns in Saturday's romp over the scrubs...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Gridmen In High Gear Compared to '37 | 9/27/1938 | See Source »

...last week, what the Japanese Army had envisaged as a cheap, comparatively easy three-month romp through the northern provinces had dragged out to a year of costly, still undeclared war, with the end nowhere in sight. Japan has overrun an area twice as large as France and Germany (see map, p. 15), has captured eight provincial capitals, and has extended her campaign through twelve provinces of North and Central China. All of China's main ports, except Swatow, Foochow and Canton, which have been heavily bombed, are in Japanese hands. Shanghai, China's commercial centre, was taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Anniversary | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

Gilbert, according to his chaperon, William A. Ryan '40, halls from Texas, where he used to romp around and he poisonous. Since then he has had his poison machinery, fangs and all, extracted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SNAKE CAUSES DISTURBANCE AT BELLBOY KIDDIES PARTY | 5/20/1938 | See Source »

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