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Word: star (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight, after the Wildcats lost their first two games (to Oklahoma and Ohio State), an editorial in the student newssheet, Daily Northwestern, charged that the linemen were refusing to block for their ballyhooed star, Sophomore Bill De Correvont. Angered, the Wildcats promptly beat Wisconsin 13-to-7, and last week swamped Illinois 13-to-0, even though De Correvont failed to get going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midwestern Front | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Also Rons. Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin and Chicago looked last week like the Little Five of the Big Ten. Feeblest is Chicago. Once - in the star-spangled days of Amos Alonzo Stagg - the Maroons shared honors with Michigan as the top team in the Midwest. But in the last decade, under the regime of President Robert M. Hutchins, football has been de-emphasized, its teams play like scrubs (154 points have been scored against them in four games this season) and its alumni bow their heads on Saturday nights. "We are a big joke in the eyes of the American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midwestern Front | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...fluids to drink after five o'clock, that he empties his bladder before he gets into bed, and that he is roused to void completely again at a later hour. Punishment is out of place." Each child should have a chart on which he pastes a gold star "in celebration of every dry night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dry Nights | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...Autremont Star...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: D' Autremont, Penson Star as Crimson Booters Lose to Undefeated Princeton | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Pension played his best game of the year in holding the Princeton forward to two goals. One of these was scored by Bud Robie, the Tiger right outside, all-American last year and brother of Ted Robie, former Harvard star after a spectacular triple pass from Bob Goheen to Pet Powell to Robie. The other came on a boot by Goheen, inside left, who took a pass from Ted Richardson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: D' Autremont, Penson Star as Crimson Booters Lose to Undefeated Princeton | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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