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Word: straight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Attempting to spot the Yale offensive pattern for this week is a risky business. The Elis installed a completely now cycle of plays against Princeton last Saturday; the difference between Harvard's banged-up line and Princeton's powerful one is enough to cause Hickman to revert to straight running if the occasion offers...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: Eli Gridders Defy 'Injuries" for Harvard Tilt | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

Czernyha is engaged to a girl in Worcester. Yermakov has played on a House soccer team. Danes has taken two hour exams and received straight A's. Bajuk joined a College group listening to the Harvard-Stanford game and was the only one with a broad smile on his face. It was the first time he had heard of "football...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Seven Displaced Persons Slip Easily into University Routine | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

Seeking its fifth straight win, the Debate Council faces Boston College tonight on the Eagle's campus. George I. Mulhern '51 and Richard S. Stewart '51 will argue the negative on whether the United States should join Great Britain in an economic union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debate Council Faces Boston College Today | 11/15/1949 | See Source »

...tailored, severely handsome woman of 47 who never wastes a word (or a dollar of production costs), Producer Crawford went from her native Akron to Smith College, and then straight to Broadway. She joined the Theatre Guild as a part-time secretary, worked her way up through odd jobs to casting director, quit in 1931 to become a founder and director of the fiery young Group Theatre, which launched Clifford Odets, Sidney Kingsley, William Saroyan, Elia Kazan, Robert Lewis, John Garfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical Play in Manhattan, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Scar repents his way straight to the electric chair. Later, he repents some more by coming from another world (not clear whether heaven or hell) with 14 subordinate mobsters to protect Lu, who is now an Army nurse on the battlefield. Somewhat taken aback by this rash of miracles, Red O'Shea admits

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Get the Angle Yet? | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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