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Word: cupped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven-girl team of Radcliffe commuters with a banjo and an 11-stanza ditty set to the tune of "Hair of Gold" won the second annual Song Contest at the Annex Quadrangle last night. They will keep the prize--a silver loving cup--for one year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Commuters Win Annex Song Contest | 11/17/1948 | See Source »

...difference between a party platform and a legislative program is the difference between cup and lip. Last week Administration officials were ready to talk about the 81st Congress' legislative program. Faithful Alben Barkley, who will ride herd on the Senate, was prepared to translate at least some, of the Democratic platform promises into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Men at Work | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...army melt away. On election night, Henry Wallace listened to the returns in his office, while party workers stamped and whirled in a square dance downstairs. When the networks gave him time for a three-minute talk (which listeners expected to be his admission of defeat), Wallace cried: "The cup of iniquity of both the old parties will overflow and one or the other of the old parties will disappear." He exhorted his workers: "This crusade is going ahead with renewed vigor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: Among the Ruins | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...second-story furnished room where he had holed up in Chester. A knot of men were standing below. Bad Boy began acting silly. He dropped a dime and called down, "Call the cops." One of the men picked up the dime, said: "This will get me a cup of coffee." Bad Boy got crazy mad. He reached back, got a .22 rifle, aimed it out the open window, killed one of the men below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The End of Bad Boy Collins | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...judges will award the silver cup, won last year by Barnard Hall, to the group of dormitory or commuter students who write and sing the best song. The wining song will become an official college song, and henceforth appear in Radcliffe's Red Book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Contest Head Picks Judges Of Song Fest | 11/4/1948 | See Source »

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