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Word: bermudas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East Greenwich, R.I., a fiberglass mold was built around a wooden mockup of Tripp's design. From the mold came the racers themselves, including Rhubarb, Southern Star II and Lorenzen's boat Seal. Last year the three sister yawls performed beautifully in the Newport-to-Bermuda race, finished fifth, sixth and seventh in a huge field of 110 boats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tripp Up | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...beach, 1,250 acres planted largely to flowers and specimen trees, three cork-topped tennis courts. They also get an 18-hole golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones and supervised by Ed Dudley, formerly President Eisenhower's pro at the Augusta National. Surfaced in a fine-strained Bermuda grass, the course winds along 7,110 yards of lake, coconut grove, ocean, ends at a Spanish-colonial mansion remodeled into a clubhouse. It goes into use Dec. 4 with a $35,000 invitational tourney for some 30 top pros...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUERTO RICO: Tourist Card | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...Yalie Daily humbly proclaimed, "In the changing of an institution's traditions, where is the line between what is so extreme that by its execution the institution no longer exists? In the case of Yale, the line is attired in plaid Bermuda shorts and poodle hair-cuts." Thus traditional conservatism responded to the 'dangers' of co-education...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: Female Yale: 'Plainly Attractive' | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

...future is bleak for any Eli undergraduate who expects a day when his eight o'clock class is populated with "Bermuda shorts and poodle hair-cuts," but then, few of our Southern brethren give a damn.Yale Daily News...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: Female Yale: 'Plainly Attractive' | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

Friday is a day of transition at all women's colleges, and Mount Holyoke is no exception. For on this particular day of the week, the great change takes place: the motley assortment of blue jeans, Bermuda shorts, and sloppy shirts gives way to the plaid skirts, high heels, and camel's hair coats...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: Mt. Holyoke and the 'Uncommon Woman' | 10/9/1958 | See Source »

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