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Word: cupped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month (non-Congress assistants get some 2,500), are forced to travel third class, refuse social invitations from the British governors. Because of these restrictions, a great sensation was caused recently when Saint Gandhi was found to have partaken of two bananas, an orange, three walnuts and a cup of boiled milk at the house of Sir John Anderson, then governor of Bengal. The tempest of excitement this raised among Congressmen, only too eager to get on eating and dickering terms with their British masters, was stilled by Saint Gandhi in his own way. He announced that he no longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Chariot of Freedom | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

Adams will out for revenge this afternoon. House champions for three consecutive years, the Goldcoasters have twice previously tasted defeat at the hands of Yale teams. Last year Davenport administered the bitter cup...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goldcoast Hoopmen Face Yale College Champions Here Today | 3/4/1938 | See Source »

This is our last opportunity to express our will as a class. We the undersigned are tired of being asked to vote time after time since our Freshman Union Committee days for the same conglomeration of quasi-representative names. Now as Seniors we are asked to swallow the final cup of hemlock, rendering us dead to our rights and privileges, the great mass of us merely so many votes to be mechanically considered by that mastermind, the nominating committee, the answer to the dreams of a power-crazed Stalin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 2/26/1938 | See Source »

...Cup games, open to professionals and amateurs alike, have no bearing on league standings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: September to May | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...Spanish & Portuguese) were silenced forever when he was done to death by David, the Union's gaudy green parrot. Last week, the parrot-murderer, possessed of Lorito's testy spirit, interrupted Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who was giving a speech to the Union (on Davis Cup drawings), with a Bronx cheer so vigorous that it would have warmed the heart of Herbert Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 14, 1938 | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

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