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Word: bullfinch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch and Abbot, architects for the new Littauer School of Public Administration, besides having a remarkably metrical name, are careful workmen. For weeks as the great gray structure reared itself, members of the Philips Brooks House staff across the street wondered why battalions of men periodically scrubbed all its stone surface...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW LITTAUER SCHOOL GETS FACE SCRUBBED REGULARLY | 10/5/1938 | See Source »

Placing a very poor fifth with 19 points after the first day's racing, with Tech and Brown tied for second, the Harvard crews, consisting of James A. Ronsmaniere '40, skipper, John H. Cunningham, Jr. '39, crew, and John N. Fulham, Jr. '40, skipper, and Thomas Bullfinch '40, crew, made a comeback in the next nine races, nearly overtaking Princeton, which had 101 points. They slipped to sixth when the Tech-Brown tie was broken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DINGHY SAILORS SIXTH IN REGATTA ON BASIN | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...West at midyears. My room was too small for them so my room-mate very agreeably shifted with me. This room looks over the Court and at night if my little black alarm clock is stopped I can look at the big illuminated dial in the Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch and Abbot pediment opposite. Thus I know when it is twelve o'clock and high time to stop studying. Or if I am not studying I know when it is high time to stop something else...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 1/15/1937 | See Source »

Henry R. Shepley '10, of Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch and Abbott, architects of slandered Harvard, when confronted merely said, "Let him have a crack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARCHITECTS WHOOPSDEARIE IN GOTHIC AT YALE--MORLEY | 10/1/1935 | See Source »

Shortly after Repeal Julius Kessler returned to Manhattan with his bull terrier Roxy and his bullfinch Dickie, there passed his 80th birthday. Still sleek and jolly, he was observed stuffing pigs' knuckles and sauerkraut, running down a street after a taxi, dancing until 5 a. m. on New Year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Whiskey Names | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

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