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Word: sparked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second line is on an almost equal par with the first. Juniors Rog Hozen, and Scotty McLennan have teamed up with Sophomore Gig Carton to spark the attack in recent games. Murdoch may also use a third line of big George Seabury, Nick Franchot, and Ed Toland, with the latter likely to get a chance to operate in the first combination...

Author: By Yale News and Barry SORTHLAN Sports writer, S | Title: Outcome of Hockey Game Is Uncertain As Are All Harvard-Yale Encounters | 3/2/1940 | See Source »

...daring in advertising must have been set recently, when Paul M. Hollister, '13, vice-president of Macy's, proposed a monster campaign of peace propaganda financed by a levy of one dollar on every U. S. citizen. Mr. Hollister's plan at least shows that there is still a spark of emotional, idealistic neutrality left in America. With effort it may be fanned into a brisk, healthy fire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNLEARNED LESSON | 2/23/1940 | See Source »

...expected, the Crimson fencers overwhelmed a weak Boston University team last night by a score of 33 to 4. "Pasty" Pastorious was the spark-plug of the team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frisky Swordsmen Slaughter Feeble B.U. Visitors, 23-4 | 2/21/1940 | See Source »

...being shown at Fogg Museum is undoubtedly one of the most fertile and satisfying collections yet seen within the halls of any museum. The precise but masculine sculpture and handiwork of the Aztecs and Mayans cannot help but inspire in the minds of a spectator an inextinguishable spark of admiration for those cultures of the New World which preceded ours by several hundred years...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...been the same since the general adoption of the huddle system 15 years or so ago. Not only has the game been slowed down from a pre-huddle average of about 150 plays to as few as 90, but nothing has ever replaced the exhilarating chatter of a bossy, spark-plug quarterback, barking "Sig-nuls!'' in the crisp autumn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sig-nuls! | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

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