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Word: cupful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five times he has lost a few pounds, won all his points, lived on. At high noon one day last week the skinny, 80-pound, 69-year-old Mahatma sat down before a crowd of sympathetic spectators and ate a meal of brown bread, cooked vegetables, oranges and a cup of hot goat's milk. Then he retired to a rustic cot in a room as bare as a Sing Sing cell and began his sixth fast until victory or death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Unto Death | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Eliot House, the inter-House swimming champions, will culminate an active season by meeting the Yale intramural champs here Saturday, March 11. The Elephants, so far undefeated, won the inter-House cup when they downed their main rival, Kirkland, Thursday, February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elephant Mermen, To Meet Eli Champs Here on Eleventh | 2/23/1939 | See Source »

...Elephants naturally take to the water", said George W. Dana '40, assistant athletic manager of Eliot House. "We have won the inter-House cup for several years in the past and are intent on keeping...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elephant Mermen, To Meet Eli Champs Here on Eleventh | 2/23/1939 | See Source »

...past several years Eliot and Kirkland have been bitter rivals for the cup. The Deacons won the championship after a close fight last winter; this year the Elephants turned the tables on the Kirkland team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elephant Mermen, To Meet Eli Champs Here on Eleventh | 2/23/1939 | See Source »

...Culinary processes will be carried out in one electrically heated vessel of some light alloy which will serve as a saucepan for boiling water and frying pan for cooking any meat permitted. Each astronaut will be allowed one cup (but no saucer), one plate and one spoon, and a knife and fork might also be taken to be passed around from hand to hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Payload to the Moon | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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