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Word: islanded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week she had a cracking success on her hands. Already blanketing 64 Long Island towns, Newsday invaded the Huntington area* with a special edition, to cover more of the polo-playing, big-spending North Shore. The paper was carrying more ads than any Manhattan evening paper, and running in the black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Captain's Daughter | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...inside pages are made up like a magazine, with every item dummied to the last line of type. She hates the tabloid habit of marooning bits of news among seas of ads. Newsday's ads don't get in the way of full columns of Long Island news, and the advertisers have learned to like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Captain's Daughter | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...matter how badly they want to win, Jaakko Mikkola's Varsity runners can't snare victory without any material. Judging from the way Rhode Island, Tufts, Holy Cross, and a comparatively weak Dartmouth squad have all run them into the dirt, Mikkola's runners just don't have it this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harriers Face Yale and Princeton; Freshmen Should Outshine Varsity | 10/29/1948 | See Source »

...Varsity, the meet affords a last chance to make amends for losses to Tufts, Dartmouth, Holy Cross, and Rhode Island. It offers the Freshman squad an opportunity to round out an undefeated season played against the same colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harriers Seeking HYP Meet Victory | 10/26/1948 | See Source »

Last year, having lost to M.I.T., Rhode Island, Boston University, and Dartmouth, the harriers found themselves in the same spot when the Eli-Tiger contest rolled around. In the ensuing debacle, they made it a perfect season by bowing dismally to both the Blue and the Orange and Black...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harriers Seeking HYP Meet Victory | 10/26/1948 | See Source »

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