Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last days of the old Administration ticked away, Washington got set for a costly carnival to welcome in the new. Bunting curled around Pennsylvania Avenue lampposts from the White House to Capitol Hill. From nearly every store window beamed the twin pictures of Alben Barkley and Harry Truman. Expecting nearly a million elbowing visitors this week, a 1,300-member committee toiled feverishly to make the four-day show the biggest, most expensive Presidential Inauguration in history. After all, it was the nearest thing the U.S. had to a coronation, a rare chance for the republic's leaders...
...representative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation." By doing this, they might be able to eliminate the stealthy creep and the awful eye that characterize so many Harvard examination rooms. A student taking an exam is a pathetic creature. Let him at least feel that if he looks around the room or glances at his watch, he is not in danger of instant indictment by the House Un-American Activities Committee...
...uninhibited shinny game with the teams slapping the puck around in front of one cage for a time, then scampering down to the other end and slapping it around some more down there...
Coach Lloyd Harper's men operated smoothly, efficiently, and effectively, but the game was no feather in their cap. Tabor just wasn't competition; its defense was as weak as punch at a Radcliffe mixer. The Crimson succeeded in pulling out the Tabor guards time and again, went around them and scored...
...Harvard forces started moving in the second period, when Dick Whoriskey scored at 0:29. Then for five straight minutes the Crimson swarmed around Wellesley goalie Stockbridge, but were unable to land. A goal by Wellesley was matched by Harris' score...