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Word: layoff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain French led his team for the first time and again looked like one of the best backs a Freshman team has had for some time. Burns was back at end after a layoff and played brilliantly, completing several passes thrown by French and Cunningham...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1929 SURPRISES CUSHING WITH 35 TO 0 SHUTOUT | 11/2/1925 | See Source »

...after a week's layoff from the continued playing of the trip, a four man team journeyed to Williamstown, where the season's unbroken record was maintained at 5-1. Perkins was the only man to lose his match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE DEFEAT WOULD NOT MAR TENNIS TEAM'S GLORY | 6/13/1925 | See Source »

...workers are on strike. Seven classes have been formed and the attendance is growing rapidly. Obviously this is not an experiment in which any public agency can very well participate. . . . But the establishment of a tradition requiring unions to provide schools and workers to attend them systematically during a layoff could be only beneficial to the men and to the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Schools for the Idle | 9/22/1924 | See Source »

Coach Wachter started a second string line-up with the intention of giving his regulars a layoff after their strenuous battles with Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, and Yale: The substitutes failed, however, to make an impressive showing. Two goals by Maher gave the Crimson an early lead which was speedily wiped out by a flood of Amherst baskets. The half ended with the visitors ahead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUBSTITUTES UNABLE TO STOP AMHERST ATTACK | 2/18/1924 | See Source »

Blood from Jack Dempsey's left eye dropped all over the newsprint of the country. The champion was batted in a sparring bout and the injury forced his layoff for several days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 39633 | 6/18/1923 | See Source »

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