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Word: seene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also conspienous in the team's offensive was the down-the-field blocking. "Precision" has been a much used torm on Soldiers Field, but it certainly cashed in on Saturday. The line holes opened at just the right moment, and split seconds later orange-striped jerseys could be seen falling in the secondary like nine pins. Harvard played a running game which for the first time in many long years really carried conviction...

Author: By Donald B. Straus, | Title: Crimson Eleven Smashes Losing Streak, Downing Princeton 34-6 | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...fitting conclusion to the exhibit is seen in "Contrasts," a study in blending the sun-baked light of Mexico with a succession of gently graded shadows...

Author: By C. C. P., | Title: Collections and Critiques | 10/28/1937 | See Source »

This is by no means the first case on record on such petty larcency. Indeed, the group of policemen that appear as if by magic following the final whistle of the game, is much more interested in spotting gentlemen they have seen the week before either in the police line-up or in various questionable albums. The conditions that prevail in the mob that surges around the goal posts are practically ideal for accustomed law-breakers: a great mass of people crashing against each other all intent upon some noble objective and unmindful of skillful snatch artists examining the contents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOAL POST SURGE | 10/27/1937 | See Source »

...Miss Fernal, do you see your psychiatrist twice a year? Have you seen him recently? Eventually, why not now? Your UNCLE SMUGLY...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Your Uncle Smugly Says | 10/26/1937 | See Source »

...Halls, comprise the work for which he is chiefly remembered. Though the Melodies are filled with romantic, hazy references to the woes of Erin, in practical fact the fires of revolutionary ardor in the poet himself had burned very dim. A favorite with fashionable London, he had seen one book of his verses honored by the patronage of the pleasure-seeking Prince of Wales (later George IV). On a visit to the U. S. soon after, he came away from the fledgling republic holding his nose from the ''wretched'' hostelries. "barbarous" inhabitants, "squalling children, stinking Negroes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bard of Erin | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

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