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Word: won (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Manager of the Harvard A. A., last night announced the draw for football tickets for the Yale game. The Class of 1905, being the 25 year class, is preferred as are the classes from 1866 through 1889. They were not included in the draw. The Class of 1896 won first position in the draw followed by 1922. 1899 was drawn last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS OF 1905 PREFERRED IN DRAW FOR YALE TICKETS | 11/13/1929 | See Source »

...gained only 94 yards and dropped the ball that gave Yale one of its two freak touchdowns. Hot and hurt (ankle) he left the field early. Booth stayed in, a constant threat, but it was a spry-sprinting substitute called "Hoot" Ellis who made the 80-yard dash that won the game. Yale 16, Dartmouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Indianamen who had sworn not to shave till their team had won a game went home bristling after eleven Minnesota Gophers in gold & maroon jerseys had spent an afternoon putting simple but energetic plays through Indiana's defense. Minnesota 19, Indiana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

When Clair Sloan got in, Nebraska won back the touchdown they had spotted Kansas. Before long Dutch Witte twisted 36 yd. for another. Nebraska 12, Kansas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...Gordon's story is not typical, as would be the story of a black Southerner consciously striving Northward toward freedom. As a Westerner, blind at first to the burden of his own color, Author Gordon dreamed of the East where he would be a brown, pagan tycoon. He won the East and more as songster, not tycoon. Still pagan, he says: "There are only two things I worship in life, a dollar bill and a pretty girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Highbrown Highbrow | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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