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Word: wintergreen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peebles said that the ever-popular "Wintergreen" would be played from the stands several times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BAND WILL PRESENT TRICKY STUFF AT SOLDIERS FIELD | 11/25/1939 | See Source »

...strains of "Wintergreen" will resound in the Stadium this afternoon, but Crimson rooters will be treated to something now in between-the-halves entertainment when the 80-piece Cornell band marches out to challenge the supremacy of Harvard's musical outfit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON AND CORNELL BANDS WILL COMPETE | 10/8/1938 | See Source »

...Yale University's Medical School, two years ago, Biologist Leonell Clarence Strong fed oil of wintergreen to laboratory mice with cancerous tumors of the breast. Some of the tumors melted away. The thing that did the trick was the active principle of wintergreen oil, heptyl aldehyde, a fragrant, colorless liquid. With the help of his colleague, Leon Fradley Whitney, Dr. Strong then set to work on dogs. In last week's Science the biologists revealed the following promising results: injection of small amounts of fresh heptyl aldehyde under the skin of ten dogs with various types of spontaneous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer News | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...Wintergreen for President" and the "Yale Medley" will be featured on the band's program at today's game. It will knock the "L" out of the big YALE which it will form after it marches once the field in a huge "H", spreading a the way across the field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Will Play "Wintergreen" | 11/20/1937 | See Source »

...company then with Morrie Ryskind and the Gershwins. won the Pulitzer Prize for 1931, I'd Rather Be Right is a buttoned, if glistening, foil. The Kaufman-Ryskind play took a swift jab at the heart of the body politician, and the late George Gershwin's "Wintergreen for President" summed up the whole oompah spirit of torchlit political nonsense in a single musical phrase. The new play pokes playfully at a dozen current problems, much in the manner of the semi-annual Gridiron satires staged by the Washington correspondents. The music, with no particular motif to follow, becomes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 15, 1937 | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

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