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Word: cards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Today's card features five claiming races, two $1400 purses, and The Inaugural Handicap worth a tidy $2500. A sleek filly named Lawless Miss is favored to cop the branny feedbag and present the above-mentioned tidy sum to lucky G. Y. Booker. She is a homobred daughter of Gallahadion...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Egg In Your Beer | 3/26/1949 | See Source »

...Cards are used in all of the tests. There are 25 cards in a dock, five each of five different symbols. The telepathic sender draws a card from the deck and thinks of it, and the receiver attempts to name what variety...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Parapsychology Club Starts New Telepathy Experiments | 3/26/1949 | See Source »

Harvard apparently loves the National Student Association. At any rate, it gives NSA over $1000 a year to maintain rapport with student organizations all over the nation and to whip up schemes like the DP program and the purchase card plan. Whether it likes the idea or not--and a segment of the paying population inevitably doesn't--Harvard is securely wedded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 8 Delegates 8 | 3/23/1949 | See Source »

These matches against the Service academies officially open the team's regular season. Besides all the Ivy League schools, the Crimson card also lists engagements with such squads as BC, BU, Amherst, and Williams--and "none of these teams will be pushovers," Barnaby says. But the toughest teams to beat will be Cornell, Princeton, and Yale, last year's Ivy League powerhouse...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Tennis Team Begins Spring Practice; 60 Men Work Out | 3/23/1949 | See Source »

When Greeting Card King Joyce Clyde Hall of Kansas City decided to let French painters in on his $30,000 Christmas card contest last fall, he little knew what he was stirring up. The French, he announced, would get half the prizes; their pictures would be judged by an all-French jury and they would have a crack at the $3,500 prix international on an even-Stephen basis with U.S. artists. Hall Brothers, Inc. (Hallmark cards) would become sole proprietor of the winning entries (with royalties to the artists). What Hall failed to take into account was the French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Le Plan Hallmark | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

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