Word: jam
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...counties and in many parts of Wales. England's northernmost areas and Scotland were spared, but there many towns were still snowbound. The Thames was on an angry rampage in its valley reaches. Central London, which is never flooded, had drinking water troubles and a titanic traffic jam as power failures halted subway trains...
...have chanced to acquire over the lunch table, the student must make out his program for the next term. The nature of the catalogue is such that instinct and odd knowledge provide most of the guidance until the actual opening of classes, when many students shop for courses, jam into already over-crowded lecture halls, and deluge University Hall with a waterfall of petitions for course changes...
This Is Jazz (Sat. 2:30 p.m., Mutual). Despite a faint tone of condescension, this is a good jazz concert, featuring choice instrumentalists in jam session...
When leadoff man Cliff Wharton went down in a traffic jam, trying to pass front running Cowle of Princeton, Crimson aspirations ebbed. But Dave Hamblett, filling in for the injured Wes Flint, and Al Ruby, pulled the Varsity into third place, and Jim Wheeler, moving up quickly over the final quarter, cut Cornell's lead. Yale was a tired last...
Behind the discreet curtains of the cafes, crowds jam the tables drinking wine or coffee and eating little plates of grilled shrimp or fried baby octopus tentacles. Silent, grey-coated policemen stand discreetly in the background with little to do. Order is so perfect that Spaniards-against all their temperament-wait for the green light before they cross the streets...