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Word: seconder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breathers, Bates and Chicago, failed to lift the lid from the football stew at Cambridge. But the twice victorious Quaker bruisers have already indicated a capacity to solve the Crimson mystery. They're big, they're seasoned, and they're determined to chalk up their second victory, away from home, in ten years...

Author: By Sheffieid West, | Title: Crimson Meets First Big-Time Opposition; Macdonald Will Call Plays for First Time | 10/21/1939 | See Source »

Langy Burwell, a Junior who only started big-time running last winter, breezed home only nine seconds behind Haley in second place. Penn Tuttle and Gene Clark, Jaakko's veteran long distance pair, finished in third and fourth places, trailed by diminutive Dick Wing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Harriers Smear Holy Cross, Taking Seven Out of First Ten Spots | 10/21/1939 | See Source »

Yesterday morning's story was intended to give only one side of the tenure question, and was necessarily based on second-hand and incomplete information...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNWRITTEN RULE BROKEN BY REPORTING FACULTY DEBATE | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

...worth hearing. As for Mr. Crosby, this is a band that, besides doing most things extremely well, plays slow blues in a way that is worth hearing. Most of the good lead men in the band are from New Orleans, and therefore playing good blues is practically second nature to them. More about this fine bunch next week when a little more space is lying around...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

...certain emotional release about a custard pie flying through the air destined for some carefully made-up face. It is a shame that the idea has been abandoned, for many modern pictures might be livened up immeasurably with the sudden appearance of a custard pic in flight. The second scene involves the Keystone cops and a 1913 Ford. The glorious, lusty pantomime of the whole scene makes one wonder whether real movie comedy didn't die with the advent of the talkies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: * The Moviegoer * | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

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