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Word: woke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...substitution of Booth inspired Harvard more than it did Yale. The Crimson woke up when he came on the field."--Roy Kelley, former Dartmouth star...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWSPAPER CRITCS UNITE IN PRAISING FIGHTING SPIRT SHOWN BY HARVARD MEN | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...bright young boy, one of the great advantages of being brought up in the Greek Orthodox Church is that you have two birthdays-your own real birthday and your name day, the day in the Church calendar assigned to your patron saint. Last week cannons booming at dawn woke Bucharest to help celebrate little King Mihai's real birthday, his eighth. In, the ornate National Cathedral, His Majesty, proud of his first long trousers, marched up the aisle with green-&-gold Generals to hear a Te Deum, marched down again to review two squadrons of the royal bodyguard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: King Gleamlet | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

After practicing for a week in Philadelphia, California's Golden Bears (average, 182 lb.) roughed Gentle and mastered Masters after he had scored one touchdown. Penn woke up to the hidden ball trick after the second period and nobody could score at all. California 12, Penn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...sound of his horn woke me from my bed And the cry of his hounds, which he oft times led Peel's 'View Haloo!' would awaken the dead Or the fox from his lair in the morning. -CUMBERLAND HUNTING SONG In England and Virginia, Ireland and Ohio-wherever British or U. S. horsemen gather, people remembered that song last week, for cub hunting was over, formal fox hunting was beginning. Bank presidents set their alarm clocks for 5:30 a. m. Valets laid out scarlet coats and white breeches. Stalwart young women wore derby hats at dawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: John Peel | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...next morning's meet of the Caldbeck hounds the velvet-capped huntsman of the pack called his hounds, and woke the echoes and stirred the Vicar's sleep with the original battered copper horn of John Peel himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: John Peel | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

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