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Word: set (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took just 18 seconds of the first period for Harvard to score its first goal. Captain Myles Huntington set the pattern for the rest of the game by beating Tufts goalie Miles Uhrig to a pass from defenseman Jack Carman in deep Harvard zone...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Hockey Team Outplays Tufts, 9-2 | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

...Beauchamp (Juano Hernandez) is accused of shooting a white man in the back. While Lucas rests tranquilly in the jailhouse and most of the county stands outside trying to decide when to lynch him, a few conscience-stricken citizens (including Claude Jarman Jr. and David Brian as a lawyer) set out to prove his innocence. The path they take to clear him leads to such Tom Sawyerish hocus-pocus as grave-robbing and fishing in quicksand for a vanished corpse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...Moreno was a short, heavy-set man whose pale eyes and greying countenance made him look not unlike a Rivera self-portrait in lithograph...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE WALRUS SAID | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...undergraduate groups. This one abridgement of freedom would imply the Council's right to make any such abridgements, to put restrictions on what an organization can do, or what it can say, or where it can meet. A rule forbidding discrimination, which might be a good rule, can set up a fine precedent for regulating polities or policies, a precedent that we fear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wedge | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...afternoon was Al Sawyer's victory over Wilbur Haggerty. Sawyer came from behind is the second period to overcome a 2-0 deficit and win, 3-2. He is in excellent shape and has good wrestling technique; he is cool, fast, has plenty of guts, and proved he could set his own pace...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Wrestlers Win by 24-7 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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