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Word: georgic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Musical interludes for the evening festivities will be offered by the assorted lands of Burt Edwards, Jerry Mitchell, Georgic Grahame, and Chappie Arnold. Every Yale man will have an opportunity to ingratiate himself with the victors if he takes advantage of the reciprocal ticket sale that is already underway in New Haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Whiffenpoofs Travel North To Big Game | 11/14/1946 | See Source »

George VI, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Elizabeth had a georgic week. In a talk to the Royal Agricultural College of Cirencester,* the King described himself as "a farmer-with all a farmer's responsibilities." The Queen wore a thistle tarn on a visit to the royal farms at Windsor with agricultural conference delegates. The Princess, in a radio talk that foreshadowed her adult responsibilities, denied that the empire was "built by cunning," put it thus: "The empire has grown like a garden, not a formal garden . . . but one that makes use of nature for its beauty, of the sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 3, 1946 | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

...took to the London subways, sleepy air-raid refugees rubbed their eyes in horror. On the blacked-out train ride to Liverpool a flashlight suddenly revealed Miss Lutyens and her infantile fragment to a woman seated opposite. The woman fainted. While waiting for the boat (the White Star Liner Georgic) in Liverpool, Miss Lutyens stored the statue with her other baggage in a basement. Meanwhile Liverpool, too, had an air raid. When she returned for the baby, she had to dig it out from under a heap of bomb-strewn rubble. She trundled it to the dock in a commandeered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bronze Baby and Blitz | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

...sort of a Harvard offense either. There may not be any scores until the second half. Michigan 20 Harvard 0 Boston College 20 Temple 7 Holy Cross 13 Carnegie Tech 7 Colgate 7 Brown 6 Dartmouth 14 Columbia 10 Tulane 13 Fordham 7 Georgic Tech 14 Notre Dame 13 Penn 20 Yale 0 Rentucky 20 Vanderbilt 7 Nebraska 7 Indiana 6 Texas 14 Oklahoma 6 Texas A. and M. 14 U.C.La. 7 S. M. U. 13 Pitt 7 Princeton 13 Navy 7 U. S. C. 13 Illinois 0 Wisconsin 7 Iowa 3 Minnesota 61 Opendate 0 Average...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MINNESOTA FAVORITE AS HU FLUNG CLIMBS OUT ON LINE | 10/11/1940 | See Source »

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