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Word: chuck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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...room at meal hours. To assist him in his duties be has appointed "Chucker" Crehan, Roxbury right tackle, as monitor. When the fellows feel gay sometimes and are seized with an urge to throw potato skins or pieces of bread from one table, to another, the stern voice of "Chuck" can be heard above the rest; "Sorry fellows, but I'm monitor" and the firing ceases...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Green Training Table is Important Factor for Players | 10/24/1930 | See Source »

...Shep Wolff if he is going to the show, Bromberg and Johnson will discuss their economics assignments in rather loud voices. Bill Phinney will probably offer a suggestion or two as the rest of the audience tap their glasses or plates with the silverware, calling for order and quiet "Chuck" Crehan announces his authority and asks the fellows to give the speaker a chance to be heard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Green Training Table is Important Factor for Players | 10/24/1930 | See Source »

...Princeton University, the 150-lb. crews are coached by Gordon G. Sikes, a brainy, mighty-shouldered little man on crutches, coxswain of the 1916 Princeton varsity. Many a Princeton man will tell you Gordon Sikes is a better judge of rowing than Head Coach Charles ("Chuck") Logg. Coach Sikes took his 150-pounders to the Henley this year. They met Kent in the quarterfinal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Henley | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

Said Retired Champion Gene Tunney, a ringside spectator: "It was low ... a dangerous punch. Once I tried an uppercut like that against Chuck Wiggins. I fouled him twice and the referee warned me. The third time I landed low the referee became quite peeved. Then Chuck Wiggins spoke for the first time. 'Gee whiz, Mr. Referee, that punch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sharkey v. Schmeling | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

...Prime Minister, like Asquith in 1911, would bring the Lords to heel by threatening to advise the King* to create enough new peers to override the votes of the present members of the House of Lords; and second that Mr. MacDonald, with the Naval Conference on his hands, would chuck it and go to the country for a General Election, sure to win by a huge majority on the issue of whether the jobless workman should be deprived of his "dole" by the House of Loafers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: House of Loafers | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

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