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Word: jam (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over Telegraph Hill, in downtown San Francisco, Christmas shoppers and homing office workers honked angrily in the season's worst jam. They cursed Mike Gaffey and they cursed his men-for not keeping the traffic moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Big Mike & the Mobs | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

Getchell has yet to complete the figures for the Crimson's two away games, played against Columbia in New York City, and Yale in New Haven. Close to 65,000--the largest crowd to jam the Bowl in years, watched the final game. The H.A.A. gets a percentage of the final profits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football Ticket Sales Probably Will Not Increase for '53, '54 Seasons | 12/1/1953 | See Source »

...only effective way of foiling the meters is by installing a transmitter in the automobile to jam the radar. But transmitters cost as much as $3,500 and require special FCC operating permits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAFFIC: Big Brother Is Driving | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

...beaten Yale in the Bowl since 1941; the oddsmakers give seven points that the Elis will win today; certain doubts surround the right arm of Captain Dick Clasby. But this is the seventieth anniversary of a rivalry which has no real favorites, and over 60,000 people should jam the Bowl at 1:30 p.m., many of them hoping to see the strongest Harvard team in six years display the sustained scoring power which it has flashed only occasionally this year...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Strong Harvard Eleven Meets Favored Yale In Seventieth Anniversary of Series Today | 11/21/1953 | See Source »

Brown won the game early in the fourth quarter of Harold Mansfield's short kick out a jam-up in front of the Crimson goal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown Hands '57 Soccer Team Third Straight Defeat, 2 to 1 | 11/14/1953 | See Source »

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