Word: nosedive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scoring a safety with less than a minute to go in the last quarter, Winthrop's Puritans nosed out an under rated Lowell eleven yesterday 2-0 in the second set of games in the House football league.
Battle Lines. In that room was visible evidence of the broken lines of the two political parties. Wisconsin's Progressive Bob La Follette Jr. found himself shoulder to shoulder with conservatives who ordinarily have no truck with him; hulking David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, who wants a big two...
Lean, stiletto-nosed John Bowman was a shy, dreamy boy. At 7 he resolved: "I would be a poet. I would always feel beautiful inside and be large and kind and beneficial and be honored and do good." At Columbia University, where he went to teach English after graduation from...
Back in court was tomato-nosed Funnyman W. C. Fields, trying again to sidestep payment of Dr. Jesse Citron's $12,000 fee for treating a bad case of broncho-pneumonia in 1936. In the first trial the doctor claimed that Fields got sick from drinking too much ("about...
No Australian tennist has ever captured the U. S. Singles championship. Britons have-H. L. Doherty in 1903, Fred Perry in 1933-34-36. So have Frenchmen-René Lacoste in 1926-27, Henri Cochet in 1928. Nearest an Australian ever came to the U. S. title was in 1933...