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Word: grassed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps, as the friend who is reading the sports page in his old green armchair complains, these thoughts tend to the sentimental and the florid, but how else would one think of Spring? Would one peek out the window, sec leaves waving on trees, lawnmowers on the grass, and merely cry, "Swell"? Would one stroll along either bank of the Charles, search the darkness for couples increasing the pleasure of the night, and, but sigh? At least, one should do more than sigh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/20/1937 | See Source »

...time with the scmaphored signals of a WIXAL, crew in the Memorial Chapel, the Glee Club and University students swung through their first spring Yard concert yesterday evening at twilight, as 1800 listeners rumpled the grass of Sever quadrangle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB, STUDENTS CAROL TO 1800 FROM WIDENER STEPS | 5/12/1937 | See Source »

...reared, pawed the air, flopped down in the path. Scared June Ebdom kited back to the stables. "Frenchy" Loudoux sped up just in time to perform a few midwifely duties for Nightingale, before a knot of gaping WPA workers. In three minutes a spindly colt was sprawled on the grass beside her. Rallying quickly, the mare walked to the stables with her foal following in a rumble seat. Loudoux swore that he had no suspicion of Nightingale's condition, that the birth must have been at least a month premature. Prodded by the S.P.C.A., police handed him a summons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Nightingale | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...Ethel Mars's Reaping Reward. Colonel Edward Riley Bradley's Brooklyn, Samuel D. Riddle's War Admiral. Jerome H. Louchheirn's Pompoon (clockwise from upper left on TIME'S front cover). Last week the group suddenly dispersed. At Lexington, Ky. in the Blue Grass Stakes, when Brooklyn finished third, behind his stablemate Billionaire and Fencing (trained by Earl Sande), his owner withdrew him from the Derby.' At Jamaica, L. I., Pompoon finished a miserable fifth in the Wood Memorial, causing his odds to jump to 10-to-1. Meanwhile at Louisville, Reaping Reward encouraged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 63rd Derby | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...committee was named to investigate and assess the value of such property as was damaged. Several men were seen carefully inspecting the lamp posts to see if any paint had been scratched off. They finally gave up and searched for damage to the grass on Cambridge Common from foot prints. The only prints that were heavy enough to be identified were those of horses and City police officers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Hall Awaits Bill From City As Cops Go to Get Money's Worth | 5/6/1937 | See Source »

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