Word: banners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Which one? Great Heavens, are you mad?" With these magisterial words a bowler-lidded Brahmin in the pages of this week's New Yorker indicates a preference for the Crimson banner over the green and gold of Western Maryland. If you put the same first question in cold cash to a sporting speculator last night as to the outcome of this afternoon's Stadium encounter you could probably have come up with 25 to 1 for the long shot. You'd also be mightly lonesome...
...unperturbed Harvard men went calmly about their business last night, a banner-waving, authentic Green Terror checked in at a downtown Boston hotel...
...less profound level, Harvard will reflect the nationwide spurt of interest in social and sporting activities. Publications, literary and otherwise, should enjoy a banner year. The football team appears headed for one of its most successful seasons in several years, and the announcement of a new seating plan by the H.A.A. should increase the enjoyment of the spectators...
...city as a whole, as well as the fire department and the subways, was awarded the Order of Lenin. The trolleys were presented with the Order of the Red Banner, while the Stalin Water Supply Station received the Order of the Patriotic War, First Class. Pilgrims from all over Russia and foreign emissaries from such diverse capitals as Rome and Bangkok were on hand. From all over Russia came birthday presents to the revered capital-gleaming new trolleys, carloads of cabbages, carrots, tomatoes and flour, which were sold in the street at unusually low prices...
SUPPORT OUR MAYOR KEN.NELLY! cried an eight-column 120-point red banner -line (the kind dear to Hearst's heart...