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Word: jeffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...their only encounter so far this season, the Engineers went down to defeat at the hands of a mediocre Lord Jeff squad from Amherst...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MERMEN THREATEN TO DROWN M.I.T | 12/18/1940 | See Source »

Roused by the German-Italian-Japanese accord, Jeff Davis, "King of the Hobos," told fellow bindle stiffs in Philadelphia to get off the road and into the Army. "This is no time to be gazing at the scenery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 7, 1940 | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...There are Ferris at the bottom of my Gardiner," sang Hu Flung Huey gaily. "I wouldn't give a plugged McNicol for the Lord Jeff's chances...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey, | Title: LIFE BEGINS AT FORTE; WHO WANTS TO GET GUILD?--SAGE | 10/5/1940 | See Source »

...unwritten athletic law at Amherst that none of its teams shall ever sit down. Timeouts mean nothing to those Sabrinas; they wait on their feet, anxious for the next play. They didn't have to open up very much last Saturday against Hobart, and Harvard can expect the Lord Jeff quarterbacks to dig down deep into their bag of tricks...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

...descriptions of theatrical and ballroom jazz are excellent. Because he likes true jazz so well, he is not one-tenth so good at telling about it. He avoids, to be sure, those indulgences in technological slang with which customers embarrass the second trumpeter. But he does let Jeff Walters say what Jeff Walters could never have said: "The world needs beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hot v. Sweet | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

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