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Word: ago (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fifty years ago chances are you would have left the field with a black eye; now you're satisfied with a popsicle. This is a classic with modernized, 1948-model color. Once it featured mustache cups and megaphones, raccoon coasts and pearl-handled umbrellas. Now it's got television, and Dixle Belle, and martinis--chilled--complete to the onion...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Gridiron Traditions Wax and Wane But Liquor Runs as Steady Favorite | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...same time the Bulldogs have been getting better. After a dismal first half season, the Yale freshmen came to life in trimming Dartmouth three weeks ago, and last week upset a powerful Princeton squad with an aerial attack that scored...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Jayvees Meet Favored Yale Squad; '52 Eleven at Full Strength for Eli | 11/19/1948 | See Source »

...years ago this fall five reporters, three editorial writers, and one editor came to Cambridge to start an experiment in education. They comprised the first Nieman Fellows--men who had won a year's study at Harvard "to promote and elevate standards of journalism in the United States and educate person deemed especially qualified for journalism...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: Nieman Fellows Get Classes, Reading, Leisure In University's Unique Newspaper Grad School | 11/19/1948 | See Source »

...catalogue; and the whole task of selecting a program presents him with what is generally an unfamiliar difficulty. Often such a simple problem as meeting the language requirement throws the Freshman for a loss; 72 upperclassmen were on language pro at the time this penalty was abolished two weeks ago, and at least some of this difficulty came from improper planning in the freshman year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Light On Advising | 11/18/1948 | See Source »

Eating place that take reservations report close to capacity crowds on the advance booking alone. At the Locke-Ober Cafe applications for the Saturday evening meal began to roll in six weeks ago, and all tables were taken ten days ago. The Oxford Grille, which accepts only early dinner reservations, sold its last seat some time ago...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Game Multitude Clogs Hotels, Restaurants, Theaters | 11/18/1948 | See Source »

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