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Word: happeners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This last four days of rain has practically changed the Business School field back into the swamp that it originally was. This soggy ground makes today's outcome more unpredictable, for anything can happen when both teams start skidding and tripping...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOTERS FACE BRUINS TODAY | 11/16/1940 | See Source »

...comparison they tied Williams 1 to 1 and beat Springfield 1 to 0. So the outcome in today's game with Springfield will be an important criterion, and the westerners always go in for soccer in a big way. Anyway, as the old saying goes, "anything can happen in the Yale game...

Author: By George F. Waters, | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/9/1940 | See Source »

George Frazier, '33, record critic for Mademoiselle ("The Magazine for Smart Young Women" who can't think farther than the next week-end party), has the following to say about Charlie Barnet: "I happen to think that Barnet's records are uniformly stinking. . . I can't tolerate Barnet because he and the music he sponsors are doing irreparable injury to the cause of reputable, heartfelt jazz." This is all based on the fact that Charlie Barnet "has had the colossal bad taste to ape the one inimitable band around today and the result is something cheap and disgusting." Needless...

Author: By Charles Miler, | Title: SWIN | 11/9/1940 | See Source »

What will probably happen is that a preliminary series of sox lectures will be given, possibly during December, to determine how widespread interest is These lectures will deal with the branches of the army and the type of service required in each. An attempt will be made to sign up those who would attend a longer series during the winter and it the number is sufficient the course will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DOUBT OF SUPPORT, DIMINISHED CRISIS CURTAIL MILITARY TRAINING PROGRAM | 11/8/1940 | See Source »

...concerned. Who am I to say whether Bud Freeman played worse trips in 1929 than he does today. I like old jazz as much as the next guy. In fact, I might go so far as to say that some of my best friends are jazz records. I happen to prefer the more recent stuff, but I've burned gallons of midnight oil listening to Louie and Bessie Smith. All I'm asking from a lot of critics is that they try to be a little more fair in their judgments. They would do well to listen to Woody Herman...

Author: By Charles Miller, | Title: SWING | 10/26/1940 | See Source »

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