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Word: thuds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...considerably. Two and a half minutes after the opening, Fortier's team almost dribbled past Morrill and a moment later Tudor flicked the puck past Laire on a pass from Zarakov. Several minutes after this, another shot almost passed Morrill. A flash of leather knee pads, a resounding thud, and he had averted another potential counter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CANUCK STICKMEN LOSE TO CRIMSON | 2/11/1927 | See Source »

...line twice more so that their team, unbeaten still, won their last game and the West Coast championship, 41 to 6. Richards of Yale jumped through the Harvard line as if it had been mosquito netting and thrust his chest in front of the ball. There was a dull thud. Later on, after the touchdown, there was a placement from the field, a field goal. Even the Crimson efforts of men with names like Chauncey and Saltonstall were not good enough to beat a Yale team which, in a game as bleak as the weather, unrolled victory from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 29, 1926 | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

Staggering beneath a huge pine coffin, little brown men bore it through the streets of Tokyo last week, let it down at last with a thud on the doorstep of Premier Heijiro Wakatsuki's official residence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gruesome Gift | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

...mention of the Dramatic Club reminds me that there is to be a production of "Arms and the Man" at Radcliffe this week as well as at the Repertory next week (adv.) which just thrills us all, thud, thud. Imagine the opportunity to see at one and the same time or at least within a week two productions of the same show, even though it is one of Shaw's worst, is now as dead as the dodo, the German war guilt and Ogden Mills. Weren't it for a friend of ours who goes to Vermont State Normal School...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 11/11/1926 | See Source »

...divested him of a rubber boot; he was almost at the top of the tree. The claws reached out again; his leg was bleeding, his courage broken, his strength gone. Death, clumsy and terrible, with red eyes, groped after him along a veering limb. And then came the thud of galloping hoofs below, a cavalcade, with rescue in every tossing neck, waited for Dave Irons below. While the frightened bear scrambled off to her cubs, Ranger Irons started in amazement at his rescuers, the cows, waiting for their salt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Tunnel | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

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