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Word: thompsons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brown's triple threat backfield may miss the services of quarterback T. D. Thompson, whose passes to Brown ends Joe Bianowicz and Harry Josephson press hard on any defense. Thompson was injured early in the season...

Author: By Steven C. Swett, | Title: Crimson Line Faces Strong Brown Backfield | 11/13/1954 | See Source »

...Thompson, the fleet sophomore halfback from last year's team, has been sidelined for most of this season with various injuries, and it is doubtful now if he could even break into the starting lineup. Archie Williams, a 165-pound junior halfback from Springfield, and Vin Jazwinski, a 195-pound fullback from Whippany, N.J., have taken over the rushing leadership of the League. The former has 517 yards, the latter, 426. Matt Botsford of Harvard is third with...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Kohut Leads Strong Brown Offense | 11/13/1954 | See Source »

...example, Mayor Allen Thompson, who refused to lower the assessment on a piece of Hederman property, was bitterly attacked, while a family friend who shot to death two people in a café was able to get the story buried deep inside the paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Revolt in Mississippi | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

Every Thursday afternoon, protocol permitting, a six-year-old American boy named Stephen Rutter will be excused from his private school on London's fashionable Eaton Square long enough to go to Buckingham Palace and obey, by approximation, an admonition of the late Mayor Big Bill Thompson of Chicago, to wit: "Punch King George in the snoot." The target will be George V's great grandson, Prince Charles, heir to the throne of Britain. Stephen, the son of a second secretary of the U.S. embassy, was picked last week to be a sparring partner for five-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fit for a Prince? | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...second-game crowd was still talking about Dusty's homer, when it settled back to watch the Giants play like champions. At third dour Hank Thompson made acrobatic, circus saves with astonishing skill; at shortstop Alvin Dark, a hard-looking old pro out of Louisiana State, knocked down everything that came his way. Slowly, with infuriating care, young Johnny Antonelli pitched around the thin edge of disaster. In the fifth, Pinch Hitter Rhodes sneaked a piddling blooper into short centerfield and the game was as good as over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Waiting for Dusty | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

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