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Word: torchlight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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After a spirited torchlight procession and the display of such banners as "It Won't Cost You Anything To Change The Name," the votes were cast. Results: Linoleumville, 4: Melvin. 58; Travis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Linoleumville | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

...girls had come up that morning, and some the night before. They brought dance-dresses, high rawhide boots, Jaeger sweaters, fur coats, skates; the boys who had asked them up gave them skis and snowshoes if they wanted them. Last week there was a great parade by torchlight from the campus to Occum Pond. The college band was playing, and visitors rode in sleigh barges each pulled by four horses. The students gave a play, Fill the Bowl Up, on Occum Pond and a committee of solemn judges selected Jeannette Ross of Maplewood, N. J., and Miss Wheelock's School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Winter | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

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