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Word: fours (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seem to be quite a few points where the Fish letter is wrong. First of all, Fish seems annoyed by the "dismal failure of the 1949 season." It might be germane to point out that the "great" Harvard teams that he played on began their seasons with the following four opponents: 1907: Bowdoin, Maine, Bates, Williams; 1908: Bowdoin, Maine, Bates, Williams; 1909: Bates, Bowdoin, Williams, Maine. The fact that Fish's teams were playing patsies for a month day possibly have had something to do with the fine finishes they staged, or with the reputation of Percy Haughton for fielding...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

Each and every crystal of the 1,000,000,000 to the fifth power that fell last night (three to four inches) was hexagonal, the University disclosed last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Snow Slips In on Little Cat Feet | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Free beer, and occasional coke, and opportunities to enroll in the College's only school for journalism will be dispensed in lavish quantities at 7:30 p.m. tonight when all four boards of the CRIMSON open their winter competitions at 34 Plympton Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Presses and Beer Cans, Roll Tonight; Crime Comp Opens | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...General Education Committee's report began. But I hope I am not being unduly skeptical if I suggest that the nature of the inquiry will limit the findings to a very broad outline, and that this outline is already visible. It is really not necessary to launch an elaborate four-year study to answer the question which the Council has posed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Council and the 'Whole Man' | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...after they graduate; but nothing can alter the fact that Harvard has little or nothing to do with the formation of character which so greatly colors the life of any student before he comes to Cambridge. This means that no person or persons can accurately gauge the effect of four years at Harvard upon the development of the "whole man," because under the tradition of freedom of which this college is justly proud, those four years can be anything from an orgy of bridge, women and spirits to a protracted eyestrain. It depends upon the individual who can and probably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Council and the 'Whole Man' | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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