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Word: cupped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over and above temporary vacations from classes." Because of this omnipresence of the male, most Radclie girls regard blind dates with a certain degree of apprension and the more popular consider them distasteful. When confronted with an inescapable one, the Cliffedweller will usually suggest a first meeting over a cup of coffee on some weekday night, after she course is decided upon, the girl will probably play bridge in the dormitory smoker until 10, speculating with her friends as to whether the gentleman in question has two heads (Radcliffe is pessimistic, generally). Leaving with a parting word...

Author: By Andrew W. Bingham and Patricia J. Maslon, S | Title: One-Sided Geniuses or Glorified Girl Scouts? | 11/5/1955 | See Source »

Another Australian victory in the 1956 Davis Cup challenge round was as good as won. The decisive volley was a pair of announcements last week by Australia's top singles players, Lewis Hoad and Kenneth Rosewall, declaring that they would stay in amateur tennis and rejecting the $45,000-a-year professional contracts offered them by U.S. Promoter Jack Kramer. Since U.S. Singles Champion Tony Trabert, the only U.S. player in the Australians' class, has already signed a pro contract (TIME, Oct. 24), a successful U.S. challenge for the Davis Cup next year looks hopeless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Double Negative | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

...Roomful of Roses nowhere skimps Bridget's plight, but it far from gloomily dwells on it. However valid, Bridget's seems a matinee or televised grief. And Playwright Sommer wants to have her ache and eat it, too. She stirs into the play a full cup of adolescent humor, a level teaspoonful of small-boy remarks, a lightly beaten offstage comedy husband and the juice of one uninhibited maid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 31, 1955 | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

...cup given to the Crimson harriers has been in Harvard's possession twice before--in 1954 and 1952. It was originally won by Yale in 1948, the first year of its inception in memory of Ensign Malcolm Gardner Main, captain of the Yale cross country team in 1941, who was killed in action off the Solomon Islands in 1942.David L. HirschPeter Relder, winner of the varsity race, just after he has crossed the finish line. Relder ran one of the best races of his career. Although the course took a let out of most of the runners, Relder's wind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Harriers Outrun Princeton, Yale By 19-44-81 Score as Reider, Wilson Win | 10/29/1955 | See Source »

...Over a sloppy track at Belmont Park, Belair Stud's Nashua scored his tenth victory in twelve 1955 starts to win the $79,950 Jockey Club Gold Cup. The purse boosted Nashua's earnings for this year to $752,550, surpassing the old record for single-season earnings ($709,470) set by Citation in 1948. Three-year-old Nashua's lifetime winnings now total $945,415, second to Citation's record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Oct. 24, 1955 | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

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