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Word: bulldog (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recognized breeds will be mounted, put side by side with their skeletons for comparison. Leon Whitney, authority on genetics, is in charge of the collection and already has skulls of the black and tan, Newfoundland, Irish Wolfhound, and entire skeletons and skins of the Cocker Spaniel, French Bulldog, bloodhound. Latest arrival was Togo, a husky serum-courier of Nome who, doddering with age, was sent to New Haven to be stuffed for posterity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Yale Dogs | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

When a newspaper forages through its news calendar, seizes whatever news it can find or rehash, throws an edition into print and out upon the streets ahead of competitors, that edition is a "bulldog" edition. Chicago's Herald & Examiner ("Herex") publishes a "bulldog" edition on Sunday afternoons. Last week this edition carried a story about one Rocco Maggio, badman. "Herex" said Maggio would stand trial next day on a statutory (sex) offense against a 14-year-old girl whom he had since married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Herex Bull | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...proposed match has aroused a great deal of interest among students of both Yale and Harvard. The Bulldog team has already begun practice, but Harvard players will probably not start their preparation for the match until after the midyear period. No experience is necessary in order to try out for the Crimson eleven, and all those who wish to learn the English variety of football are urged to communicate with T. L. Jarman at Massachusetts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard and Yale to Enter Upon New Field of Competition; Yale Rugby Team Inspires Prospective Crimson Opponent | 12/7/1929 | See Source »

...Evening World's theory that this is to be explained by Yale's formidable reputation, acquired in the eighties, when Walter Camp had a monopoly on knowledge of the game, or else by the magic of the figure on the Yale totem pole, which is a bulldog. Either of these explanations is plausible and worth thinking about. Our own belief, however, is that the real explanation is to be found in the atmosphere of gentility which is thought to hang over the Harvard campus. Gentility, to the average American, suggests a lot of sissies: it is quite incompatible with physical...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Situation Down at Yale | 11/30/1929 | See Source »

...Yale mascot is a bulldog. Thereby hangs a tail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Men Will Feel More at Home in Rounded Stadium--Bottle Royal is Promised for Today | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

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