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Word: tamely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crimson team goes into the game with every man on the Varsity "red-shirt" squad in top shape, and Harlow has declared that he will dress several "white-shirts" also. Among the "whites" who stand good chances of going out to tame the Bears are Joe Gardella, third-string bucker, and Gene Levett, second left...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Crimson Is Given Edge In Season's Tough Opening Game With Brown Eleven Today | 10/1/1938 | See Source »

Today the 1938 Harvard Varsity football team begins its third week of practice, and starting Monday, the morning sessions will be discontinued. Next week intensive work against the Brown plays will commence, for the season opener with the none too tame Bruin bear is hardly over a week away...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Varsity Football Team Starts Third Week of Practice on Soldiers Field | 9/23/1938 | See Source »

...cross between tame & wild mice, they were supposed to be more fearful, less amenable to training, than either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Hybrid Game | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...Guinea pigs and dogs vary greatly from one individual to another. Monkeys could not be tested because they kept peering curiously over the cylinder's top. Wild rabbits see better than tame rabbits; normally pigmented creatures see better than albinos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Animal Vision | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...McGoverns, finding Peiping too tame, frequented the fighting front. In one expedition they made with six newspaper correspondents, the five men and three women spent a sleepless night in one bed while dogs devouring Chinese corpses howled outside their hut. When he returned to Evanston, Bill McGovern predicted Japan would conquer and control all China within two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Traveling Man | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

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