Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...market was a litle shaky perhaps but otherwise nothing happened. And so big crowds went to the Bowl which was being opened for the first time, and watched Harvard beat Yale, thoroughly and completely, 36-0. This team was the greatest team in Harvard history. Besides Eddie Mahan and Tack Hardwick, there were on this team such Harvard illustriouses as Hugs Francke, Stan Pennock, and Jeff Coolidge who picked up a fumble on his five-yard line and ran 95 yards with...
After the third quarter, Dartmouth worked to windward far better than their opponents, footing best on the port tack. It looked from the spectator fleet as though Harvard had picked up a lobster...
...right smack on a tack I woodn't aben more surprized then I wuz ter larn how many TIME readers wuz former apple butter stirrers. Why, shucks, th' mailman thot Xmas was here already, jedgin from th' extra letters he's had ter deliver...
...career is a prime example of a problem which very few men have to face-how to live a normal life when your father is President. Last week, having spent five years trying to solve the problem by working for others, 26-year-old Elliott squared off on another tack and prepared to go into business for himself...
...first twelve minutes of the race, neither gained. Then the breeze began to freshen, Ranger picked up speed, and both sailed off on a long port tack. Sopwith smartly changed Endeavour's head-sails but when he began to catch up, Vanderbilt changed Rangers. About halfway to the buoy, when both boats went about for the second time. Ranger was half a mile ahead...