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Word: seesaws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seesaw contest throughout, with the Jayvees leading 24 to 21 at the half, the game was a pitting of freshman height, backboard control, and accuracy against the Junior Varsity's shifty floor-work and quick, deceptive passing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yearlings Edge Rival Jayvee Quintet, 50-48, in Blockhouse | 2/26/1948 | See Source »

...victim to a burst of hot shooting by Dunster in the last few minutes of play, 46 to 42. Stretch Crichion of the Elephants rang up the top score of the evening with 14 points, but his one man attack wilted against Dunster's smooth team-work and the seesaw game, 22 to 22 at the half, dropped to the Funsters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot, Lowell, Funster Win In House Tilts | 2/20/1948 | See Source »

...experts disagreed. They would rather bet their money on glum, gum-chewing Joe Wilman, 41, who was bowling man of the year in 1946 and went about his trade in very businesslike fashion. In Chicago's drafty Madison Street Armory last week, Andy and Joe staged a seesaw duel that made the bowling experts forget anything they had seen before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: I'm a Man, Huh? | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

Sparked by the running and passing of Frank Mikloa, the Crimson Jayvees outfought Yale for a 28 to 26 victory here yesterday afternoon. Mikloa connected with right and Peirce Leavitt on three touchdown passes and ran the ball himself for the other tally in the fierce seesaw battle on Walter Camp Field. Halfback Bill Brady provided the running punch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jayvees Edge Eli Eleven by 28-26 Margin | 11/22/1947 | See Source »

...drawbridge, the counterbalanced movabale sections whic rise & fall on a seesaw principle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stinking Fish | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

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