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Word: courtyards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shut the door behind himself and fled down the stairs, across the courtyard, and up the stairs to his own room. He at for a moment in an armchair and then went to the bathroom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fried Shoes | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...miss, the careful arrangement of a special exhibit or intense study for a Fine Arts 13 exam, the photographing of an ancient sculpted head or the creation of a new piece of sculpture. Available to all, however, is the distinctive atmosphere of Fogg's pleasant corridors and light-bathed courtyard...

Author: By David Horvitz, | Title: A Visit to the Fogg | 3/7/1959 | See Source »

...court, in the fashion of the game, resembled a medieval courtyard; shedlike roofs slanted down along three sides. A huge net drooped limply across the floor. The low walls were pierced by openings that looked like windows in ancient outbuildings from which spectators peered out like court nobles in an old print. At the exclusive Racquet and Tennis Club on Manhattan's Park Avenue, devotees were watching Northrup R. Knox, 30, challenge 41-year-old Albert ("Jack") Johnson for the world open championship of the ancient game of court tennis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Off a Monastery Wall | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...Classical Club will perform Aristophanes' The Clouds April 10 and 11, in the courtyard of the Fogg Museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Group to Present 'Clouds' in Greek | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...last two afternoons of Bicker are devoted to an institutionalized series of orgies (or "horror shows," as most sophomores called them) at Holder Court. At about 1 p.m. the sophomores began milling around in the muddy courtyard; by 2, the clubs had shepherded most of them into their respective headquarters, in nearby dormitory suites, where they sat, each clutching a can of beer, either content with their bids in hand or desperately trying to negotiate their way into a club...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Princeton Seeks a 'Meaningful Alternative' | 2/12/1959 | See Source »

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