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Word: downs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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In the smaller retail businesses, it is easier to find evidence of recession in Cambridge. During the past year, total sales volume dropped six per cent, and many a small merchant is feeling the pinch for the first time since the war. New out-of-town highway stores have joined...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 11/1/1949 | See Source »

Once upon a time, a little girl who lived on a small farm outside of Laramie, Wyoming owned a fuzzy dachshund named Pete. The farm was set on the very edge of the dry desert; the little girl's front lawn was crisis-crossed by a network of shallow irrigation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shaggy Dog | 11/1/1949 | See Source »

Last spring two Brown undergraduates died in fraternity roughhouses allegedly brought about by drunkenness. One fell down a flight of stairs and cracked his head; the other was stabbed with an ice-pick in a Providence bar.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown Invokes Ban on Liquor; Frats May Die | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Levy, a French exchange student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, told police he was walking down Garden Street toward Radcliffe when a man about five feet six inches tall walked up to him and asked for a cigarette.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Men Attack Graduate Student | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

But he made the traditional claim of the coach whose team had won a hard close game, that there were no stars, just a team. He praised downfield blocking, always a good sign of team play, and cited the fact that the last winning score came on fourth down, after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Teamwork Is Key To Yard Eleven's Win Over Indians | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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