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Word: brownings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roman Catholic ritual. Thus a new British organization, the Catholic Circus Guild, made its bow. Dominican Father Cyprian Rice preached a sermon; another Dominican, Prior Antoninus Maguire, sprinkled holy water from an aspergillum on a tiger, a trained Pekingese, some horses and six pretty little albino donkeys. Three large brown bears were brought in, pushed into seats, blessed and photographed, looking clumsily reverent and infinitely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Blessing | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Last night it was learned from J. Wilcox Brown, general manager of the club, that the University officials had taken no action, and that a permit had been wired from the Liquor Commission at Concord, New Hampshire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Carnival's Prompt Telegram Averts Week End Crisis | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...Club was founded in 1911 to provide a mid-winter relaxation period for Dartmouth students, and almost its sole function is the running of the celebrated Winter Carnival. J. Wilcox Brown, its General Manager, could not be reached last night for comment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Loses Liquor Permit | 2/11/1939 | See Source »

...Freshmen meet Worcester Academy at 3:15 at Worcester . . . The Penn team arrived yesterday and practiced in the Holyoke Street bath all afternoon . . . . Williams will have more fun this year than last, when Hutter was continually beating him . . . . Yale submerged Brown Wednesday. The Bruins who broke the Crimson winning streak bowed 51 to 24. Outstanding Eli times: a 2:58 medley, a 2:17.7 furlong, a 52.8 century, and of course 123.6 points for Danny Endweiss, Yale's persistently perfect plunger. The New Haven team today meets Michigan at Ann Arbor and is likely to return to Connecticut Monday...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: SWIMMERS TO FACE WEAK PENN TONIGHT | 2/11/1939 | See Source »

...tentacles, and which now hang loose like sparse hairs on the otherwise bald pate of the diving bell. A swirl of the dark current and these few strands, looking grayish in the gloom, drift away, leaving the head completely scalped. From the bottom of the chamber sprouts a sticky brown-black beard which runs up the side several feet--a beard of ooze and slime which has spread over the iron skin of the globe in the weeks it lay on the clammy bosom of this watery abyss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/11/1939 | See Source »

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