Search Details

Word: tigers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Despite the fact that Dave Burt defeated their star, Charley Matman, Miami beat the Crimson racquetmen last year 7-2. This spring they should be just as strong, but Jack Barnaby isn't conceding anything in advance. Then, on May Day comes the season's key match--with the Tiger down at Princeton. This should constitute Harvard's toughest fight against Ivy league opposition. After the Orange and Black are scheduled Cornell, M. I. T., Amherst, Brown, Dartmouth, and Yale in that order. Divinity Field's rejuvenated grandstand may seat a record crowd when the Bulldog pays his visit...

Author: By Harrison F. Lyman jr., | Title: Lining Them Up | 4/23/1940 | See Source »

...Sheridan will root for Princeton. She'll attend the Harvard-Princeton game at Cambridge November 2. She'll be cheering in the Tiger ranks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 4/23/1940 | See Source »

Unmindful of a steady rain and a cold wind, the Crimson ruggers added another win to their perfect record which is going on its second year by taming the Princeton Tiger 21 to 6 Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rugby Fifteen Defeats Tough Tiger Men 21-6 To Extend Clean Slate | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

Sheep and Dogs. In a letter to the London Times last week an irate female reader urged Europe's small neutral States to act not like sheep but like tiger-hunting dogs, accused sheep of waiting when attacked to be eaten up one by one, praised the dogs for sticking together in a pack and making a "combined rush" at their attacker. The P.M. did not use such picturesque imagery, but he did remark across the ropes to neutrals like Norway and Sweden that they had better adopt a policy that "corresponds to realities," instead of acting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Blitzkrieg or Sitzkrieg? | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...specially constructed city of bamboo huts, roofed with waterproofed hubla nettings, equipped with waterworks and baths, deep in the malarious, tiger-infested Hazaribagh jungle of Bihar, over 100.000 Congress members had gathered. The site, Ramgarh village, had been chosen because 20 years' meteorological records showed it to be among Indian towns least subject to the torrential rains of March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Gandhi Foregoes Independence | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

First | Previous | 1139 | 1140 | 1141 | 1142 | 1143 | 1144 | 1145 | 1146 | 1147 | 1148 | 1149 | 1150 | 1151 | 1152 | 1153 | 1154 | 1155 | 1156 | 1157 | 1158 | 1159 | Next | Last