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Word: playing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...playing up the "big-time" angle the newspapers have completely subverted the purpose of the alleged University ruling to give some kind of job security to football players. This job ruling represents the first time that the University has ever considered the position of the football player as a special case. It implies at least that Harvard is actually trying to build up a football team by attracting new material. All of which brings us to the peculiar inconsistency of the Bingham statement. While it announces that Harvard will cease to play major league football, it also outlines a concrete...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 12/3/1949 | See Source »

...holder of the last three titles, will also take umbrage at this charge from the Big Three's cellar-dweller. Perhaps the rest of the Ivy League is perturbed by the fact that Harvard has announced its intention of going small time, but is still going to play six of seven Ivy teams...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 12/3/1949 | See Source »

...drama department of the Boston Conservatory of Music will present the play "Outward Bound" by Sutton Vane tomorrow at 8:30 p.m. The public is invited. --From the Boston Traveler, December...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 12/3/1949 | See Source »

...Exit" is virtually a three character play (there is a valet who appears briefly), an unusual burden is put upon the actors. The Idler players--Ed Franklin, Connaught O'Connel, and Carla Friedman--are a talented trio and what errors they committed last night can be laid at the feet of Mary Howe, the director. Mrs. Howe has been with the group for some time but she continues to show an appalling indifference to some of the mere fundamentals of staging. The greatest fault with the present production is that it is played throughout on too shrill a key. Miss...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 12/3/1949 | See Source »

Silently, with its eyes demurely downeast, the '46 Album has joined us three and a half years late. The men it depicts at work and play have graduated, of course, but perhaps they will be interested. The advertisers have probably gone out of business, but those that remain will be interested to see what they were selling in 1946, and will no doubt be stimulated to advertise in later yearbooks by this display of kept bargains. The Corporation will have a chance to weigh the Album in one hand against the stub of a $5000 check in the other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Voice From the Past | 12/3/1949 | See Source »

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