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Word: swamp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of the loss of Doug Pirnie, ace sprint man, who pulled a muscle in his leg shortly before the meet, the track team took fourteen out of fifteen firsts o swamp Tufts and Connecticut in its opening meet of the season held last Saturday at Soldiers Field. The final score was Harvard 120, Tufts 27 1/2; and Connecticut...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Runners Rout Connecticut, Tufts As Hunter Becomes New Captain | 4/23/1946 | See Source »

Playing without the services of high-scoring forward Wyndol Gray, the Varsity basketball team scored a smashing upset over a highly-touted Quonset Naval Air Station outfit, and then went on to swamp Boston University for the second time. In so doing, it proved beyond any doubt that it is not a one-man team, but a talented and well-integrated machine which more than deserves its reputation as the best in Crimson history...

Author: By Monroe S. Singer, | Title: Quintet's Wins Over Quonset and BU Virtually Clinch Bid to NCAA Meet | 2/26/1946 | See Source »

...Veterans Swamp University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VETERAN INFLUX TAKES UNIVERSITY BY SURPRISE | 2/1/1946 | See Source »

...League": Pennsylvania-bouncing back from the Army massacre to swamp Cornell, 59-6. Runner-up: Columbia-outclassed by Penn but winner of its other eight games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Conference Champs | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

Hollywood neither wanted nor expected him to be King Heron; it was just that all the frogs in the swamp were good & tired of King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES: Exit King Log | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

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