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Word: saws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Superior brands of teamwork, coupled with more speed and better lasting ability saw the 1930 men safely through. The margin of superiority was considerably more than the one goal advantage indicates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1930 SEXTET WINS OVER NEWTON, 2-1 | 2/17/1927 | See Source »

Napoleona went on exhibition last week at the Museum of French Art in Manhattan. Maudlin sentimentalizers sniffled; shallow women giggled, pointed. In a glass case they saw something looking like a maltreated strip of buckskin shoelace or a shriveled eel. It was a mummified tendon taken from Napoleon's body at the postmortem. Then there were locks of Napoleon's hair, his white breeches, a flounce of Alengon lace from Marie Louise's wedding dress, a baby dress worn by L'Aiglon (Napoleon's only legitimate child), a death mask of Napoleon cast in bronze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Napoleon's Things | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...sitting at her bedside in a Chicago hospital. Flowers from Gertrude Ederle, Jack Dempsey, Tex Rickard and many another were brought in by her parents. She had been sick for 92 days. She, who had many times looked up from thrashing waters and laughed at the sun, grew pale, saw no sun. Sybil Bauer had ceased to live; her family, her fiance, sports lovers, bowed their heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sybil Bauer | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...regard to the work of the Committee Carter said last night, "All grievances and evidence, both by those who participated and those who saw the riot, should be submitted in full in writing to the committee. Its object will then be to gather and compile the facts and cooperate with the college authorities in a proper remedying of the situation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CARTER EXPLAINS PURPOSE OF PROTECTION COMMITTEE | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...defeat which a strong Dartmouth quintet handed the University basket tossers was the only setback suffered by Crimson minor sport teams last Saturday. Three other contests saw Harvard on the long end of the scores, the foilsmen winning their first meet from B. U., while both wrestling and polo teams were also successful. All three Crimson victories were by large margins, B. U. going down 9 to 0, Tufts losing on the mats 19 to 10 and the 51st Artillery Brigade succumbing to a fast University trio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIVE IS ONLY LOSER IN WEEKEND GAMES | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

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