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Word: fracases (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Close on the heels of Tuesday night's fracas in which seven students were arrested by Cambridge police, a statement was issued by Dean Hanford yesterday sharply warning undergraduates of the dire consequences of participating in "public disturbances" and threatening the severance of a student's connections with the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HANFORD CAUTIONS AGAINST FURTHER STUDENT RIOTING | 5/2/1940 | See Source »

The result of the fracas in front of the M. I. T. fraternity houses on Memorial Drive was: three pairs of pants were forcibly taken from Yardlings and there was a field day for the Boston press photographers.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YARDLINGS MARCH ON TECH TO GET ROCHESTER CULPRITS | 5/2/1940 | See Source »

Coach Floyd Stahl's strategy in keeping his ace flinger Tom Healey out of the Cornell fracas on Friday and saving him for Penn back-fired as the encounter was washed out. When the Quakers do come to Soldiers Field, however, they will undoubtedly be short of pitching, having just...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stahlmen to Play Penn Tilt May 18 In Double Header | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

As if the Altmark fracas in Norwegian waters were not enough excitement, added to it last week was the incident of Pajala, a Swedish town of 3,000 six miles from the Finnish border, 100 miles North of the Gulf of Bothnia. One morning seven bombers flew over Pajala, dropping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDINAVIA: Darkening Up Here' | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

Result of this advertising fracas is that Americans are the cleanest people on earth. Annually they scrub themselves and belongings with some 24 Ibs. (equal to almost 110 toilet-size cakes) of soap apiece. Next come the Dutch, two pounds under the U. S. record. With its worldwide coverage in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Schoolgirl Complexion | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

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