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Word: charlestown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arriving at 2:30 o'clock, the singers will be greeted by Jerome D. Greene '96, Secretary to the Corporation, before begining their tour. After the Lowell concert and a visit to the other Houses, they will board busses at 4 o'clock for a concert in Charlestown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell House Concert Is Feature of Today's Cossack Chorus Visit | 12/2/1939 | See Source »

...late entries was Betsy Waffie of Charlestown, who plans to "put the Waffie on the Harvard gridiron." The seventeen-year-old world's champion batonnetter came dressed in a royal blue marching uniform, and carrying her pet one pound and ten ounce brass baton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Batonnetters Register In Person for Contest | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

...little playing yourself, they just don't exist in Beantown. The number of jam joints in any given locality can always be obtained by squaring the difference between midnight and the liquor curfew. In Boston, the curfew is at one. Occasionally, the Stork Club at City Square in Charlestown will see some after-hours playing, but not as the usual thing. Ardent swing fans had best direct their efforts towards the next election...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 9/30/1939 | See Source »

...Cambridge, Mass. Councilman Michael A. Sullivan told the city council that Harvard Square (named after John Harvard who sailed into Massachusetts Bay in 1637 and willed his library to the college when he died in Charlestown, Mass, in 1698) should be changed to Washington Square. His reason: "[John Harvard] was just another foreigner who never set foot in this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 10, 1939 | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Ninety-two Harvard students in Naval Science will embark on the battleship Wyoming and the destroyer U.S.S. Herbert at Charlestown Navy Yard today for the annual summer cruise of the college Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps. The cruise will put in at Havana, Charleston, S. C., and New York City, and return to Boston about July...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ninety-Two Naval Science Students Leave on Cruise | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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