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Word: athleticism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Winthrop and Dormitory sextets battled it out last night to a 2 to 2 tie, climaxing the third series of inter-House hockey matches at the Boston Skating Club rink in Brighton. This was the last House athletic contest of any kind this year.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINTHROP, DORMITORY TIE IN HOUSE HOCKEY | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

Two millenniums and a quarter later, last week, Adolf Hitler's newspaper Völkischer Beobachter drew a fanciful parallel: Joseph Stalin with Alexander the Great. No two men could be less alike. Alexander loved gaud and baubles; Stalin likes big boots and old brown tunics. Vain Alexander refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Beobachter's Parallel | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

First new voice to be launched was Wisconsin-born Tenor Eyvind Laholm's (real name: Johan Edwin Johnson). Tenor Laholm had already spent 14 years making himself one of the most famed Wagnerian tenors in Germany, had won personal applause from musical Fuhrer Adolf Hitler. But until two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Singers | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

With a spectacular exhibition of power among its relatively inexperienced wrestlers, the Crimson wrestling team walloped the Tufts grapplers, 24 to 8, Saturday afternoon in the Indoor Athletic Building. At the same time the Freshmen tied a strong Tufts 1943 team, 20-20, with the advantage of two defaults to...

Author: By William W. Tyng, | Title: Varsity Wrestlers Overcome Jumbos 24-8; Daughaday and Thomas Star | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

The Crimson will have another chance to get back on the winning track again when a strong B. U. team invades the Indoor Athletic Building tonight. The Terriers lost to Harvard last year in one of the closest games of the year, as the Feslermen came from behind in the...

Author: By John C. Robbins jr., | Title: WESLEYAN TAKES 53-37 VICTORY FROM QUINTET | 12/16/1939 | See Source »

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