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Word: cupful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard and Princeton competed for the Intercollegiate Cup in Bermuda during spring vacation, Princeton winning in the last few minutes of play eight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rugby Team Meets Princeton Today, New York Tomorrow | 5/1/1937 | See Source »

...started an hour ahead of the rest of the field, stopped after the first ten miles. Winner, when the favorite, John Kelley, weakened two miles from the finish, was a 24-year-old Quebec snowshoe champion named Walter Young, whose prizes were a laurel wreath, a silver cup, a medal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: DeMarathon | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...ruled that, since he had blown his whistle to stop play before the puck went in, the goal did not count. A goal for the Rangers would have tied the score, 1-all, in the second period of the deciding game of the final series for the Stanley Cup, hockey's world championship. Referee Ion's decision, accepted after a five-minute altercation, meant instead that the Rangers had to take increasingly dangerous risks to tie the score. While they tried to do so, Detroit had and took opportunities to score twice more, once in the second period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stanley Cup: Apr. 26, 1937 | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...first time in years Harvard is ranking as a power in Eastern rowing, for the new Bolles regime went off to an auspicious start Saturday afternoon as the Crimson's first and second eights glided to victory in the Compton Cup races...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strong Varsity and Jayvee Crews Defeat Princeton in Compton Race | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...shiny frying pans as favors from a pile of 350. While couples syncopated to the tunes of Tasker Crossman, at the polished circulation desk, converted into a bar, free beer flowed aplenty. Dressed as a ragged girl, an ingenious graduate won the prize for the best costume--a loving cup fashioned out of a headlight, a hub cap, and two steel pipes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRYING PANS FLY IN ANNUAL SHINDIG AT BUSINESS SCHOOL | 4/20/1937 | See Source »

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