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...group, heading south to sing some more, and crossed back over Massachusetts Avenue with them. There were the stores again, still garish, but they looked foolish now, alone against the bigness of the night. The lights above the sidewalk were dim if you set them against the Dipper, high and very bright indeed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

...former Editors of the CRIMSON who have no place to come home to after the Yale baseball game tomorrow afternoon are invited by the Editors to visit 14 Plympton Street for a dipper-full of punch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Past Crimeds Asked To P. Street Punch | 6/21/1949 | See Source »

...comet is reported to be as bright as the stars of the Big Dipper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Observatory Cannot See New Southern Comet | 11/10/1948 | See Source »

...only two apartments that had no dirty dishes in the sink. It was not that the maids were lazy. Rio as usual was suffering from a falta d'agua (water shortage). All but two had a bathtub of rusty water with a saucepan nearby for a dipper. Water ran briefly only at morning & night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Apartment in Rio | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

Walter Huston is always a likable and skillful actor, and Apple of His Eye is a harmless enough little play-as rural and homey, at its best, as an old, dented tin dipper. But its shy and anxious courtship makes a long and languid evening. Farmer Stover shows twice the indecision of Hamlet without any of the excitement. The apple of his eye is a decent, agreeable girl but singularly unobservant. And the worried relatives, gabby neighbors and drawling farm help that punctuate-and protract-the evening are all stock-comedy figures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 18, 1946 | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

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