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Word: cheerful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even lusty regular cheer for the team, in which all hands enunciated a similar and exact number of rahs failed to cheer the morose Spear as he envisaged the winning touchdowns against Yale greeted with study and unorganized silence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Megaphone Trumpets For Tyro Cheerleaders | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...wonder if I should know something about football? I'm sure dates just love me to ask them all about it. The only thing I know is that you shouldn't cheer when your date is biting off his nails; and you shouldn't admire the wrong band. Everyone knows that Harvard's band is the best in the land...

Author: By Bunny Wintergreen, | Title: Stadium Viewed As Grim Nexus in Local Manhunt | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...wonder if I should know something about football? I'm sure dates just love me to ask them all about it. The only thing I know is that you shouldn't cheer when your date is biting off his nails; and you shouldn't admire the wrong band. Everyone knows that Harvard's band is the best in the land...

Author: By Bunny Wintergreen, | Title: Stadium Viewed AsGrim Nexus of Local Manhunt | 9/18/1947 | See Source »

...night there was a monster demonstration of that peculiar production of American fantasy-the 40 & 8 locomotive. There were 38 of them in all, many of them amazing machines which emitted real smoke, towed boxcars and whistled like Old 97. About 200,000 people jammed sidewalks and rooftops to cheer them down Eighth Avenue, and to goggle at things like a bucking automobile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VETERANS: The Battle of Broadway | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

Last week Russia's city dwellers, always hungry for better times, drew premature cheer from news of the kolkhozes (collective farms). The bread grain crop of wheat and rye was more than half harvested and it had been a good year. Though the Government had said nothing, plain citizens nourished the hope that the long-deferred end of bread rationing might be in sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Never Do We Dance | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

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