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Word: tossups (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Georgia, the deadlock was between Truman and Thurmond. In Florida, the Dixiecrats might prove strong enough to swing the state from Truman to Dewey. In the other doubtful states it was still a Truman-Dewey tossup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: Box Score | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...left bank of the Charles, or, more exactly, in Phillips Brooks House last night, the French club fought a tossup battle over Brooklyn and Beacon Street accents in a game effort to recapture "I'esprit gaulois" on no stronger fuel than ice water. (It was called punch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: French Existentialist Erotics Find Outlets in Champagne and Chanel | 10/16/1948 | See Source »

Valpey, who called the outcome of the Columbia game when he predicted that four touchdowns would be needed to win, thinks Cornell will be rough. "It should be a tossup. We lost a lot of weight Saturday and are not a good team...

Author: By Steve Cady, | Title: Jayvees Simulate Cornell's Offensive | 10/7/1948 | See Source »

Samborski has narrowed the search for catcher down to Web Durant and Clif Crosby. The two seem even at the moment, and it is almost a tossup as to who will start next Tuesday's game...

Author: By Albert J. Feldman, | Title: Rough Diamond | 3/25/1948 | See Source »

Jesse Abramson, New York Herald Tribune: "An upset is possible in a game that has suddenly become a tossup, in the way this...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: Sportswriters Toss Up Coin And It Comes Down Yales | 11/22/1947 | See Source »

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