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Word: win (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Registering their sixth consecutive win, the Freshman hockey team yesterday afternoon defeated Andover 7-0 in the Boston Garden. The Crimson first line of Captain Prentice Willetts, Robert Cox, and Stacy Hulse were outstanding, being responsible for six of the seven goals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '41 Hockey Sextet Defeats Andover 7-0 in Garden Tiff | 1/13/1938 | See Source »

Featured by the brilliant victory of Captain Alvah Sulloway, which netted eventual victory for the home squad, a see-saw game with the Union Boat Club Whites resulted in a 3-2 win for the Varsity squash team yesterday on University courts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Racquetmen Conquer Union Boat Club Whites, 3-2 | 1/12/1938 | See Source »

Down the Saragossa highway the Rightist counterattack drove through drifts of snow to recapture Concud, win La Muela, another strategic hill not quite so important as Mansueto, and reach the gates of the city itself by Saturday night. At this point, exuberants in Salamanca were proclaiming a complete Rightist victory, publishing detailed descriptions of the relief of the garrison who had doggedly fought for their lives in the Cathedral, the Seminary and the Civil Government Building. Actually the Rightist wave broke at the city gates. Generalissimo Franco, following Leftist tactics in reverse, sent another column cross-country to retake Campillo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Battle of the Nations | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...natured, hard-headed patriot, as provincial as General Grant, gawking at every cathedral, castle, museum and picture gallery. But it shows him also as a distinguished scientist, meeting Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley on equal terms. A stanch Presbyterian, he hated Episcopalians and Catholics, but thought the Congregationalists would win out in the end. The only thing he wholeheartedly admired was European art in general, nudes in particular. He studied representations of Venus all over Europe, found little fault with any of them, although he thought Rubens should have put more clothes on his wife before he painted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yankee Scientist | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

Captain Charlie Hutter, of course, is the big gun of the team's scoring battery. Opposing teams this year will have the disturbing thought that Charlie may swim in any freestyle race from the 50 to the 440 and relays, and be practically certain to win it. That is, if he hasn't swum in two or three events already that evening. But it is doubted whether Ulen will ever again see the necessity of swimming Hutter in three events in one meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 1/7/1938 | See Source »

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