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Word: beers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock the crowd began to gather outside the 'Poon building, to partake of the free beer and listen to the serenade of a pick-up band. Forty-five minutes later every white shoe and club tie in Cambridge was there, but for some reason the animals were not. A murmur of expectation ran through the crowd as a peddler passed by with his horse and wagon, but negotiations failed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Poon Pet Show Enjoys Brief Glory | 2/20/1948 | See Source »

...evenings, Slater and Britten cycled to the local pub to drink beer and play darts. Says Mrs. Slater: "I had to make a rule they should speak to me at mealtimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera's New Face | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...debacle as a minor international incident. Snow is drifting over the St. Moritz rinks, and the A.H.A. and the A.A.U. teams are taking a look-see through Europe on the cuff before embarking for the States. The Brundage versus Brown issue is, for the moment, closed. But in backroom, beer-primed athletic colloquiums the nation over, A.A.U. and A.H.A. partisans are waxing eloquent over the entire American amateur athletic picture. Avery Brundage's Olympic committee, of which Bill Bingham is a member, gets excited about amateur athletics once every four years, searches through its dusty files, and throws its weight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 2/13/1948 | See Source »

...U.S.S.R (Minutes) Wheat bread, Ib. 5 7½ 70 Veal, Ib. 37½ 34½ 315 Butter, lb. 30 48½ 642 Beer (1 pt. Ib. draught mild) 22½ 6¼ 171 Cotton dress 450 142 1,911 Woolen suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 9, 1948 | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Though chapter houses were crowded, many married brothers now lived in Quonsets, trailers and boardinghouses off campus; they had little time for the old casual touch-football games on the lawn, or the beer & bull sessions. Even at Western and Midwestern campuses, where fraternities usually had been taken more seriously than in the East, actives were not as active any more. Were fraternities themselves on the decline? According to a survey of 17 big-time college campuses last week, the answer was decidedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Boom on Fraternity Row | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

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