Word: routs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Those who actually saw the game were even more dumfounded. With Sid Luckman, onetime Columbia star, calling the plays with the genius of a clairvoyant, the Bears were a perfect football machine. By the end of the third quarter, the game had become an undignified rout. At the end of the last quarter, it was a massacre...
...Yardlings also face the boys from Medford in what will probably prove a rout. Their team was pretty weak last Saturday, and Bobby King, the only man to pin his opponent, is out with a broken collar-bone...
...battalion of death" fresh from Modena. The Greeks, attacking before dawn after nocturnal artillery barrages, smashed their way by grenade and bayonet up the eastern wall of Argirocastro's valley. This week, on the central front, the Greeks claimed the capture of 5,000 prisoners in a major rout...
...Boston's plushiest Brahmins viewed the paintings with no murmur of disapprobation, even for a wrenched, very nude Red-Haired Woman, which was one of the high points of the show. Boston's Sanity in Art Society kept mum. Thus had James Sachs Plaut put critics to rout...
...Italy, fortnight ago, roared a triumphant tale of victory over the British Mediterranean Fleet. Gleefully Rome told of sinking a British cruiser in the Malta Channel, damaging an aircraft carrier and another cruiser, putting the Royal Navy to rout. Last week tits British Admiralty issued a different version, backed it up with firsthand accounts of the battle...