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Word: tilting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only remaining game on the schedule is with the Boston University Terriers who have handed the Crimson their only two defeats of the summer. Another tilt with Squantum is also being considered by Coach Adolph Samborski...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harford's 353 in Summer Contests Sets Batting Pace | 7/30/1946 | See Source »

...high-light of the game was Moravec's new found control. Vince's best showing in the walk department prior to Wednesday's tilt with Squantum was five passes, but he allowed only one free ticket to the sailors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Nine Nips Squantum For Third Summer Win, 5-4 | 7/26/1946 | See Source »

...Stahlmen will attempt to make Worcester Polytechnic Institute the victim of win number thirteen tomorrow when it journeys to the Engineers' home courts. On the basis of the first tilt between the two teams, the Crimson should have no trouble romping to victory in game beginning at 8:30 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quintet Whips Northeastern 82-25 As Jayvees Top Dummer Academy | 2/15/1946 | See Source »

...side, put on her best pink dress. Then she was taken across the hot, wrecked city to the high-ceMnged ballroom where Japan's General Tomoyuki Yamashita was on trial for war crimes committed by his troops. She sat gravely in the witness chair, tried to tilt her dangling feet to keep her sandals from falling off, and told why she was an orphan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: The General and Rosalinda | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

Dome of Many Colored Glass. These ghostly skylarkings merely carry to the point of caricature the lovingly-labored transformation of Shelley from flaming infidel to versifying vicar at which Author Smith & Others* tilt grimly in The Shelley Legend. The "Shelley Legend," they say, "is a term used to characterize fallacious views about the life of Shelley and his writings which have grown up principally under the careful supervision first of Mary Shelley [Shelley's second wife], and after her death, in 1851, of Lady Shelley, wife of the poet's son, Sir Percy Florence Shelley." The authors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seeing Shelley Plainer | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

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