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Word: berths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is the same eight that downed Yale with the exception of Will Cochran who is being replaced behind the bow oar by White and coxswain Grant Thomas, whose berth is being filled by King...

Author: By Thomas M. Gallie jr., | Title: Varsity Crew to Leave by Plane Saturday For Special West Coast Regatta June 22 | 6/13/1946 | See Source »

Trained Sleeper. In Buffalo, Douglas Mercer boarded a train, snoozed away the trip to Rochester. His berth: atop the locomotive boiler, beside a sizzling steam valve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 20, 1946 | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

Veterans who thought that they had seen the last of double bunks when they got their discharge papers might as well get used to climbing to a second-story berth once again, because all present indications are that, with a 50 percent personnel increase in each House next fall, many men are going to find themselves doubling up in their college rooms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Doubling Up Seen in House Rooms During Overcrowded Term in Fall | 5/18/1946 | See Source »

...glad to get off the train at Regina, despite the sub-zero weather. George W. (for Woodall) Cadbury's 6 feet 5 inches fold uneasily into a sleeping-car berth. After a good night stretched diagonally across two Hotel Saskatchewan beds, he was in fine humor as he talked to newsmen about the job which had brought him all the way from England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: SASKATCHEWAN: Only Socialists Need Apply | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

From the notoriously tipsy rail of the Hasty Pudding Bar to an equally tipsy railing of an American destroyer in the British Channel wasn't too far for one candidate for that venerable Institution. Called to his ensign's berth while still a nominee, he was elected by the lads he left behind him soon after his departure. His proud parents cabled a joyful if cryptic note: "Hasty Pudding. Congratulations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pudding Hi-Jinks by Remote Control Rate Special Delivery | 12/18/1945 | See Source »

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