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Word: three (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present trend continues, it is quite possible that amateur football will be as dead as a dodo in a few years." Thus mourns the Daily Princetonian over the scanty attendance at the Bowl. The editors feel that soon even the Big Three will catch the Chicago disease, and either give up their amateurism or forget about big-time football. From Harvard's experience, there is no such "trend" in evidence. As a matter of fact, every Harvard game this fall has drawn a somewhat bigger crowd than the H.A.A. expected. Princeton may be having a lean year, but there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOLA BLUES | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

...single game. The most logical explanation for the meager 32,000 at the Bowl last Saturday is simply the one-sidedness of the predictions of the game. It is ironical that after this playing down in the papers the game turned out to be a genuine Big Three thriller. The football public from now on may believe the tradition that a Big Three game is always exciting enough for anybody's $3.85. At least, the Harvard-Yale fans seem to believe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOLA BLUES | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

Last week the Harvard University Corporation rescinded its permission for a student meeting at which Earl Browder was to speak. It did so with the explanation that his indictment for a passport violation had made him unfit for a Harvard platform. Three days later a mob of legionnaires and assorted thugs descended on a Detroit meeting-hall where Communist leader William Z. Foster was delivering an address. They picketed boisterously, and when the meeting ended and the crowd began to disperse, they went into action. They created a tumultuous riot, inflicted injuries on nearly fifty people who had attended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 11/23/1939 | See Source »

This is a story of propaganda, and of how the three powers in the Commonwealth, the President, the Governor, and "The University", all tried to curry popular favor, and how "The University", of course, outsmarted the others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/23/1939 | See Source »

...doubtful that all of these things will happen and that a very mediocre Bulldog eleven will transform itself into a great eleven Saturday. But any one of the three may conceivably take place when Captain Macdonald's men find themselves lined up with a Blue team facing them Saturday...

Author: By D. D. P., | Title: What's His Number? | 11/23/1939 | See Source »

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