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Word: won (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...terms with everybody; Dona Marciala is intolerant towards Gabriella, the erring sister of the family, when Papa Juan would ask her to his hundredth birthday party. But the old man rises above them all, smoothes out the quarrels and before the play is half over has so won the sympathy of the audience that one wishes he could fulfill his facetious determination to live to be two hundred...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: Cinema -:- THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER -:- Music | 11/14/1929 | See Source »

...defy even the criticism of the most conservative critics. A certain Mr. Deckinson of the individualist faith, having painted a picture entitled "The Fossil Hunters" in ghostly gray with a recumbent old man delicately pointing a twig in the general direction of a grind stone in the semi-abstract, won a five hundred dollar prize. Unfortunately, the photographer commissioned to take a picture of this work of art, being a conservative in the matter of posing and of regard for the limitations of his patrons, noted something amiss in Mr. Deckinson's work The judges were recalled and after careful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE | 11/14/1929 | See Source »

Last year J. L. Reid '29, then captain of the squad, was winner in actual time elapsed, breaking his own record for the course by covering the distance in 27 minutes, 28 and 4-5 seconds. In handicap placing, however, he was eighth, while the race was won by Sturtevant Burr '31, now a regular member of the cross country team, who had a handicap of 4 minutes, 20 seconds. His name was the first to be inscribed upon the trophy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARRIERS MEET IN FALL HANDICAP TOURNAMENT | 11/14/1929 | See Source »

With but five more days for playing scheduled games remaining in the inter-fraternity touch football league, the Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity leads in the standings with three games won and none lost. The Trident Club is in second place, having won the same number of games, but lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOUCH FOOTBALL TEAMS ENTER CLOSING ROUNDS | 11/14/1929 | See Source »

...best material, the former having placed sixth last fall, while Shapiro and Phillips are very good. Cornell's chief strength lies in Levering, who was twelfth in 1928, and has shown even better work this season. Cornell defeated the Yale runners, 19 to 54, while the Crimson won from the Blue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD HAS FIGHTING CHANGE TO WIN I. C. 4A. | 11/13/1929 | See Source »

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