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Word: colds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regrets were felt over the loss of the rickety gray building with the low ceiling and the one cold water spigot that had previously passed for a gymnasium. "Chemical laboratory bottles upstairs juggled dangerously when anything more violent than Swedish movements was done," a reminiscence in the 1900 Yearbook reads. One member of the class of 1897 donated a large tin tub from home for the girls to bathe in after exercising...

Author: By Deborah Labenow, | Title: Annex Gymnasium Marks 50th Year As Basketball, Bowling Top Sports | 3/10/1949 | See Source »

...Left Them Cold...

Author: By Deborah Labenow, | Title: Annex Gymnasium Marks 50th Year As Basketball, Bowling Top Sports | 3/10/1949 | See Source »

Major General William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, wartime boss of the OSS, announced in Los Angeles: "It's not a cold war. It's a damn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 7, 1949 | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...city block past the finish line. They made the descent three times more before they pinned down the 1949 four-man bobsled championship. Average time: 1:13.32. Average speed: 46.8 m.p.h. Afterwards, Benham's No. 3 man, Jim Atkinson, felt his face and grinned: "Boy, was that wind cold." Somebody remarked: "It's all over but the drinking." Said Driver Benham: "I haven't had a drink in a long time . . . you can't drink and drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Secret of Shady Corner | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...with the help of friends and a town scholarship. What was even more socially disastrous, he says, was the fact that he had gone to Newburyport High School instead of Groton, Exeter or St. Mark's. At Harvard, the more snobbish prep-school men of his class cold-shouldered him and sometimes, he imagined, pointedly crossed the street to avoid speaking to him. (John tucked that away, too. Charley Gray, thinking back over what it had been like to go to Dartmouth from Clyde High School, hopes to send his own son to Exeter.) Even today Marquand somewhat sourly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spruce Street Boy | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

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