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Word: slugfest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they began their careers as vaudeville hoofers in Manhattan in the 205. Cagney was responsible for one of Raft's earliest cinema parts, a dancing bit in Cagney's Taxi. Their appropriate reunion, also celebrating their return to the gangster movies where they belong, is a fierce slugfest in handcuffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 31, 1939 | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...championship game of the Freshman softball league, a Hollis-Matthews Hall combination finally triumphed over a Straus Hall nine in a 15 to 12 slugfest yesterday on Soldiers Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Softball | 5/26/1939 | See Source »

...game is liable to turn into a slugfest, but the visiting Stahlmen have indicated that they will be more than at home in such a contest, and they ought to chalk up their third triumph in as many League starts

Author: By E. O. Cerf, Sports Editor, and Daily Princetonian, (SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CRIMSON)S | Title: HEALEY GIVES FOUR HITS AS STAHLMEN BEAT TIGERS 7 TO 0 | 4/22/1939 | See Source »

...baked southern diamonds and springy turf played havoc with an indoor-trained infield and outfield, and accounted for the dropping of more than one nip-and-tuck slugfest. Weeks ahead of the Crimson players in condition, and playing on home grounds, Tar Heels, Blue Devils, and Middies successively got the breaks to take hard fighting Harvard into camp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASEBALL TEAM MAKES FAIR SPRING SHOWING | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...have a busman's holiday at the expense of any fastball pitching Harvard could offer, but John's "nothing ball" and a loose game kept the tourists on a par with Duke until the seventh, when the potent opposition pounded out three runs to clinch the slugfest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASEBALL TEAM MAKES FAIR SPRING SHOWING | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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