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Word: tells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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President Eliot will offer the resolution in honor of his memory and will tell something of Major Higginson and of the club's purpose in making this resolution at the present time. President Lowell will second it and speak briefly in explanation. Following this, action by the club as a whole in regard to adopting the resolution will be taken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD CLUB ASSEMBLES TO PASS HIGGINSON RESOLUTION | 12/5/1919 | See Source »

...first are frankly German; those of the worthy Senators, according to their own valuation, are "one hundred per cent. American." But it only takes two per cent, perspicacity to see that the latter are just as German as the former--whether through ignorance or malice, it is hard to tell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IGNORANCE OR MALICE? | 11/25/1919 | See Source »

About football this year, it's a funny business but I guess the Harvard boys aint got a much worse team than any of the others. If you should see Mr. Eddie Casey tell him to run faster with the ball this time because he should understand it that this business with Yale is not a monkey business...

Author: By Izzy Kaplan., | Title: IZZY KAPLAN PICKS "THE HARVARD BOYS" AS WINNERS | 11/22/1919 | See Source »

...should get it a day off and come to see the footballers tell it to Mr. Haughtonstein to say to the Freshmen not to get fresh with Izzy Kaplan because some day Izzy will knock them for a ghoul because Izzy is a hard egg when he is mad and I hope you feel the same...

Author: By Izzy Kaplan., | Title: IZZY KAPLAN PICKS "THE HARVARD BOYS" AS WINNERS | 11/22/1919 | See Source »

...making the plays, conceived the plan. At that time forward passes were unheard of and mass plays with flying wedges were relied on for results. This form of play made the game a confused one to follow. And it was almost impossible for the stands to tell who was doing the work. Furthermore, regular linesmen were not then in vogue, and the spectators were left to guess as to whether the team with the ball had one, two or ten yards to go, or whether it was first, second or third down. In a word, to the spectator...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORRIS COMPLETES 13 YEARS AS WIG-WAGGER IN STADIUM | 11/22/1919 | See Source »

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