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Word: rowdydow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Knute Rockne knew his men could beat Carnegie Tech. He packed his bag and went to Chicago to see the Army-Navy game. Into the fold on Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, stole a rowdydow team from Carnegie Tech, rocked Rockne's unbeaten Baby Buntings asleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Dec. 6, 1926 | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...melted in the glasses. The food cooled on the silver salvers. Every guest stood trembling in the corridor outside the locked door, listening to the thud and rowdydow of fists, waiting for the best man to unlock the door and step out. Would the boy be too much for the curmudgeon? Or would the canniness of the old man prevail to wrest the championship of the O'Brien family from the youth? Suddenly, silence fell in the locked room; the guests gasped; the door opened. "Better go in and sew him up, Doc," said Philadelphia Jack. The real name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: O'Brien v. O'Brien | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

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