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Word: thornes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...five men who started in that game back again, and the newcomer. Partenheimer, has proved himself one of the fastest guards which the agriculturists have had in years. In addition he is the most accurate basket shooter on the squad with the possible exception of Temple, who was a thorn in the side of the Crimson quintet last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIVE SEEKS REVENGE AGAINST M. A. C. | 1/30/1925 | See Source »

...suspicion will not down that President Coolidge and not Senator Butler has experienced the greater stroke of fortune in the affair. When Senator Butler was substituted for Senator Lodge, the sharpest thorn in the side of the Administration was replaced by a kindred spirit. Mr. Butler will be Coolidge in the Senate, and Mr. Butler's views will be accepted as those of the President. Senator Butler is inherently not a negative figure, and his added position of spokesman for the Administration should make him a power in the Senate and a power for the support of the President...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A RABBIT'S FOOT? | 11/15/1924 | See Source »

Boston College should beat Marquette, their conquerors of last season. The Eagles are screaming louder than ever of the showing of Darling and his mates, and apparently not without cause. Marquette has lost the brilliant Dunn, who was the main thorn in B. C.'s side a season ago, and in other respects is hardly up to the 1923 standard The Heights eleven will have a hard battle, however and will need the breaks in order...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FEW BIG GAMES TODAY TO WORRY CRIMSON PROPHET | 11/8/1924 | See Source »

...supervise Freshman affairs may be detected a dangerous effort not only to analyze indifference but actually to dispel it. The choice of class organization as a target for experimentation was wisely made, as the problem of getting out enough votes to make class elections valid has been a constant thorn in the sides of successive election committees, who have attacked the difficulty without stopping to find out why it exists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT, AGAIN? | 9/24/1924 | See Source »

...Louisville, a newspaper reporter discovered a 14-year-old horse, ill-fed, bony, windbroken, drawing a peddler's ramshackle cart, recognized the steed as Hawthorne, 12 years ago a champion two-year-old on Churchill Downs (Louisville), remembered that Hawthorne's mother was White Thorn, that White Thorn was grandmother of Epinard, crack French stallion now invading the U. S., deduced that old horse Hawthorne must be "Epinard's uncle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Epinard's Uncle | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

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