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Word: flasks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deer hunters blunderbuss their way through the woods these days bagging an occasional stag, a whiskey flask, and if lucky, a good-natured game warden. But now that athletics have moved indoors, the green felt of the amateur croupier slowly substitutes for the paler verdure of the gridiron, and cards again become the preoccupation of informal undergraduate sports...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Egg In Your Beer | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...guard Dauntless ("Plated") Stepling, who will spend this morning on the bench nursing a case of delirium tremens and a hip flask...

Author: By C. N. Gridlak, | Title: Crimson Gridders Face Subsidized Princetonians, Predict 23-2 Victory | 11/8/1947 | See Source »

...couple of years ago," recalled Bingham, "M.I.T. did a really fine job. A spectator could really make out the letters sitting stop the goalpost, or even on a silver flask in the Soldiers Field stands. Yes, that was an engineer's product," he recollected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Terriers Trail Hot on Tail Of Technology's Techniques | 10/4/1947 | See Source »

...Flung Huey ran after the Babb and finally Cotter. He tried to Werner, "Jakunski in the winter but now is the time to Suwall-o a Knepp of alcohol from a Silbur flask and Foster the football spirit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hu Says, Let's Make Maryland | 9/27/1947 | See Source »

...threw a farewell party. Their guest of honor had made their lives miserable with his peculiar scoops. The peculiarity of his scoops lay in the fact that so many of them were phony. His imminent departure made him very popular. At the party, he was presented with a silver flask filled with his favorite fluid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: China Incident | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

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