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Word: tilts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yardlings, smarting from their one-point loss to Dartmouth Wednesday, will be out for blood in the Freshman tilt. With a record of ten wins and three losses against Yale's record of nine wins and four losses, the Yardlings stand a strong chance of repeating last year's Freshman...

Author: By A.edward Rowse, | Title: Hoopsters Shoot to Keep Blue in Cellar; Improved Sextet Hopes For Upset Tonight | 3/8/1941 | See Source »

...hard-fought Freshman tilt was not decided until the closing minutes when the Big Green wiped out a five point deficit following Bill Snyder's ejection from the fray on fouls. Jack Torgan, with nine points, was the high scorer of the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fighting Dartmouth Team Ties Pucksters, 3-3; Crimson Hoopsters Lose 63 to 47 to Big Green | 3/6/1941 | See Source »

...chill winter sunshine of Virginia, they slogged in single file along the roadsides, in thin lines through the naked valleys and over the bare bundocks of the Quantico reservation. Instructors and recruits alike wore the drab, unmilitary-looking coverall working outfit, but the boots had already learned to tilt their campaign hats slightly askew over the right eye. Most of them carried Springfields slung over their shoulders. A few also dragged two-wheeled machine guns and ammunition carts that Marines call "Cole-carts' (after their inventor, Major General Eli Kelley Cole). In every man's mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAVY: Magic at Quantico | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

...cubs have had an enviable record of 13 wins, dropping only the Dartmouth game and a tilt with St. Paul's last December. The schoolboys, according to Hodder, are not a fair estimate of the team's strength, for they are all fast skaters and play a different brand of hockey from average Freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 3/1/1941 | See Source »

They don't fit. They are unbecoming. They poke our escorts in the chin or eyes, depending on their, or our, height. They tilt and titter ; you have to be super to carry them off - or be carried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 23, 1940 | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

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