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Word: slating (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Blue scores came as the result of long shots from the sticks of Scott and Sargent, which each of these players followed up to cage goals on the rebounds. Jenkins was impregnable in the Yale goal, and repelled numerous hard shots to keep his team's slate clean throughout the evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEXTET READY FOR CONTEST WITH TIGER | 2/28/1925 | See Source »

...three-the blows fell on a large slate tablet engraved with a golden cross. At the third blow the tablet cracked across. The door did not seem to budge. Pope Pius faced about and returned to his throne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jubilant | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

...acres of meadow and rough woodland just west of Hartford, Conn., cut by boiling trout streams, bordered by the Farmington River. Built thereon, a rough-hewn stone village, copied after old Colonial villages, with heavy-timbered gables, hand-joined by wooden pegs; with split-oak roof-trees, slate-slabbed roofs and other backwoods atmosphere. In this village, a population of hardy schoolboys, citizen-students of Avon College (a school and junior college, preparatory to universities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Balm | 12/29/1924 | See Source »

...work of the cross-country team today brings to a close one of the most successful seasons in years. Only the reverse at the hands of Yale last week in the triangular meet at Princeton marred a clean slate for the runners, and close followers of distance running know that only the poor condition of the men ten days ago caused the surrender of the triangular cross-country title. Coach Farrell loses only two men this year by graduation. Cutcheon and Captain Chapin are both Seniors, but in O'Neil and Luttman of the present Freshman team Coach Farrell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD FINISHES SECOND IN INTERCOLLEGIATE RUN | 11/25/1924 | See Source »

Dartmouth's slate, which promises to be as clean as anyone's at the end of the season, was never threatened with a smudge from Brown. Messrs. Hall, Oberlander, Dooley, Leavitt and their assistants travelled 222 yards during an afternoon punctuated with many imperfect passes by Brown. Score: Dartmouth 10, Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 10, 1924 | 11/10/1924 | See Source »

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