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Word: bike (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Warm Wellesley welcomes await the perservering, perspiring cyclists who finish the ten and a half mile Outing Club bike race to the female-frequented Waban campus tomorrow morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rewards at Wellesley Lure 45 Bicycle Racers Tomorrow | 4/23/1949 | See Source »

...event is entitled the Harvard Outing Club's annual bike race, and though ten and one half miles is a considerable stretch of pavement, it still represents a return to partial sanity on the part of the Outing Club briantrust...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 4/21/1949 | See Source »

People are not expected to cheat in the Wellesley bike race. Perhaps this is because it is quite difficult to chest. In fact just about the only way to circumvent the law is to grab the tailboard of a passing truck; or have a friend over the next hill with a motorcycle...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 4/21/1949 | See Source »

Jackson's associates in TIME-LIFE International are hoping that his experience with a Corgi motorbike, given him by its manufacturer, will not be too typical of forthcoming British-American trade relationships. Jackson took the 65-pound bike (a civilian model of that used by paratroops during the war) out for his first spin, skidded in some loose gravel, fractured his left foot. Rather, they like to dwell on the gift which Jackson received from another enthusiastic Britisher, the morning after his speech at the British Consumer Goods meeting - a case of Scotch whiskey (now selling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 26, 1948 | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

Plates, which are valid until the bike changes owners, can be procured at local police headquarters for 25 cents, and serve as a means of identification should the bicycle be stolen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Have Bikes Licensed, Police Urge Students | 3/4/1948 | See Source »

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