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Word: beatings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There were bouts of deck tennis and shuffleboard, and-for the Princesses-a giddy series of tea parties in the midshipmen's "gun room," with charades and some earnest discussion of swing bands. At one formal dinner the Princesses sang the latest hits together as Margaret beat out a syncopated piano accompaniment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Through Sunny Seas | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...first eight months) or 2) oozed ink all over hands and paper. The ink in some pens even fermented, and blew the balls right out of the pens. But buyers kept right on coming. Said one bemused pen man: "They're like horse players. They figure they can beat the odds-and get one that works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hotter than Ever | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

Distance Must Beat Sprints...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Middie Team To Face Ulen Mermen Here | 2/21/1947 | See Source »

Varsity track coach Jaakko Mikkola, who used to lie awake nights during the lean wartime years thinking up ways to beat juggernauts like Worcester Polytechnical and Milton Academy, is getting much more sleep these days. The reason is simple...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/20/1947 | See Source »

...visitors from Hartford, Connecticut, have a season record of eight victories and two defeats. Apparently aware that the Blue and Gold would be hard to beat this year, the team's schedule makers arranged to meet both Harvard and Yale. Trinity will play the Elis next week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trinity to Tune Up Quintet For Ivy Home Stretch Drive | 2/19/1947 | See Source »

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