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Word: thrashed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...event of the evening. Charlie Hutter and George Scott '34 will meet Art Bosworth and Dave Stearns in the two-lap sprint. Scott who has been improving ever since he left college, and who beat Hutter last year, has been fast in practice time trials. Although he may well thrash out another win, all four men should finish within a half-second...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: Untried Varsity Swimmers Face Crack Alumni Mermen in Pool Meet Tonight | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

...Varsity, but because they present the unusual and sometimes pathetic spectacle of some of Harvard's all-time aquatic here, Charlie Hutter, will take time off from his Medical School studies to compete in the sprint events, while his perpetual Alumni-meet rival, George "24-second" Scott, plans to thrash out a mighty 50 yards. Rusty Greenhood, last year's captain and League champion diver, will team with Bun Merriam, another former Crimson star, to features the strongest Alumni springboard pair in many years...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 12/12/1939 | See Source »

...town-gown relations, McNamara said, "If Harvard, M. I. T., and Radcliffe officials sat down with public officials, they might thrash things out; sometimes, though, Harvard seems a little arrogant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Talks Taxes With Cambridge; McNamara May Fight 'Bad' Settlement | 4/20/1939 | See Source »

...engaging hero, red-headed Ray Talcott, son of an Illinois storekeeper, was only 13 when he headed West. He was equipped with a fish line, jackknife, agate shooter, $13, a strong will not to return until he was big enough to thrash his browbeating father. His adventures along the way might have been told by Mark Twain -capture by a mean reward-hunter, whose precocious daughter petted him, stole his $13; escape and recapture and escape again; apprenticeship to a kindly windbag who dyed Ray's hair black, stained his face, billed him in his medicine show as Little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Western | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...case worker, whimpers atop a chair. In another room the teacher, Tom Pettee, strokes the pretty hair of Carol Gillman, an impetuous divorcee. The others discuss tactics. A gang of local "antis" come in, carry out the committee's two leaders, take them to a dark swamp, thrash them unconscious. Then they turn lights and police on their victims. "I swear!" they say. "They have been beating each other up. . . . Goddamn. They want to get us into trouble." The liberals leave Chew still bloody and uninvestigated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bloody Chew | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

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