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Word: hardpan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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With prospects for a winning season having increased with wins last week over Williams and Wesleyan, it seems a shame that the varsity squad must play on an unkempt, windswept, sloppy hardpan like the Business School field. Through lacking the tradition which shrouds college football, college soccer, played under decent conditions, could easily prove what a first-rate sport...

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: Field Condition May Hurt Soccer Team's Play Today | 10/22/1957 | See Source »

Light Out. Of all the shadowy figures in the Kremlin, Molotov is the man the world knows most about. In person, he is a small, unprepossessing, pigeon-toed man with golden pince-nez and the hardpan face of a gravedigger. Looking into his eyes, wrote British Diplomat Harold Nicolson, "is like looking into a refrigerator when the lights have gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: Old Reliable | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

Captain Wray gave "dig in" orders shortly before dusk. His men scraped through wet sand and mud to frozen hardpan in which they hacked out foxholes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: The Fight for the Cemetery | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

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