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Word: tops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...departments. After the last Purple batter had flied out the score stood 11-4, with the Williams team far to the rear. Again the stands had done their share by their ardent backing and this time, they were not disappointed. They saw an organization which was playing at top speed from start to finish, and that is what they have been waiting to see. If the team has really found itself and can continue this consistent aggressiveness and wide-awake playing Coach Duffy and Captain McLeod need not fear the result of the coming games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BASEBALL TEAM COMES THROUGH | 5/15/1919 | See Source »

...Victory Liberty Loan Campaign in the College has gone "over the top". Gratifying as the word's sound, every sane undergraduate knew all along that sooner or later in the campaign they would be safely translated into fact. The chief question has been from the first not one of victory or defeat, but of the extent and character of the victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "TARGET DEMOLISHED SIR!" | 5/9/1919 | See Source »

Yesterday's subscriptions, totaling $35,100, sent the University "over the top" with a grand total of $108,500 subscribed in the Loan Campaign. Every class but 1922, which still lacks $9,400, has now exceeded its quota. This amount must be raised in the two remaining days of the Loan, or that class will close the campaign with a deficit. Last year, the Freshmen subscribed nearly one-half of the amount raised...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YESTERDAY'S SUBSCRIPTION PUT UNIVERSITY "OVER THE TOP" | 5/9/1919 | See Source »

...Boston from its earliest history has always been in the lead of patriotic effort, and now I expect to see Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts, and all New England sail over the top full speed." 428 SUBSCRIBERS HAVE GIVEN $108,500 Class Yesterday's Total Total To Date Quota Amount Needed Subscribers 1919 $3,800 $21,800 $12,450 -- 60 1920 30,350 38,300 21,000 -- 74 1921 200 28,550 27,300 -- 132 1922 750 19,850 29,250 9,400 162 Total, $35,100 $108,500 $90,000 -- 428 At large, 5,250 29,650 -- -- 81 Grand total...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YESTERDAY'S SUBSCRIPTION PUT UNIVERSITY "OVER THE TOP" | 5/9/1919 | See Source »

...will be performed, and in such circumstances the University will be in a position to oversubscribe the quota. Let every one audit for a final time his account books and discover some means for producing five dollars for one more bond. Finish strong, and put the loan over the top with a large number of subscriptions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORE SUBSCRIBERS WANTED. | 5/8/1919 | See Source »

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