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Word: doves (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dove has to pure white," McKee explained, "and it's better if it is a stormy night," Drawing their information from a collection of books cached away in Widener Library, they felt they could settle a whole slew of metaphysical questions with one crucial test...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Devil Must Wait As Wizards Seek Sacrificial Doves | 12/8/1948 | See Source »

...Jasper Symmes '52 last month convinced Jasper McKee '51 to aid him in an extensive survey of metaphysics. The first real experiment, scheduled for this week, was to be an attempt to make contact with the devil. Symmes explained that the ritual involved drinking the blood of a white dove at midnight on a windswept field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Devil Must Wait As Wizards Seek Sacrificial Doves | 12/8/1948 | See Source »

Both students admitted that the devil might not appear, but stated that they would still hold out hope if a few warts disappeared soon after, Now, unable to locate a white dove, they are temporarily stymied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Devil Must Wait As Wizards Seek Sacrificial Doves | 12/8/1948 | See Source »

Dave Aloian dove over the chalk for the first Winthrop score. The second Puritan tally was made from their own 30 yard line, with Harvey Thayer escorted by his blockers through the Dudley defense for 70 yards to enter the end zone. Bob Cameron ran over the last two puritan touchdowns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop Blanks Dudley as Lowell Edges by Adams | 10/20/1948 | See Source »

...spread to the U.S. in the '20s. The most artlessly forthright paste-up in last week's show was made by Arthur Dove in 1925. Entitled Grandmother, it consisted of a needlepoint embroidery, a few shingles, a page from the Bible, a pressed flower and fern. But, except among commercial artists (who have found it useful), the trick never caught on in the U.S. as it did in Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Scissors & Paste | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

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