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Word: jumbos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rolling KLM jet, the flight engineer twice asked, "Is he [Pan Am] not clear then?" Emphatically, Veldhuizen replied, "Yes." His KLM plane hurtled down the runway. Suddenly the Pan Am 747 loomed ahead. It was too late: the KLM jumbo smashed into the Clipper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Flashback | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...Harvard women's tennis team, two weeks after tying Tufts in the Greater Boston Championships and one week after defeating them for the Massachusetts State title, fell to a newly inspired Jumbo team yesterday at Soldiers Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquetwomen Fall In Hairsplitter; 5-4, To Tufts Jumbos | 10/18/1978 | See Source »

Laura Weissman's defeat of number two Crimson singles player, sophomore Martha Roberts, 6-0, 3-6, 6-2, made possible what Jumbo coach Richard Shapiro called "probably the biggest win ever for womens' tennis at Tufts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquetwomen Fall In Hairsplitter; 5-4, To Tufts Jumbos | 10/18/1978 | See Source »

After a disastrous first set, Roberts turned to her characteristically aggressive style to take the second set, 6-3. She fell behind 4-1, early in the third, though; and several spectacular shots from freshman Jumbo Weissman, foiled her late-set charge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquetwomen Fall In Hairsplitter; 5-4, To Tufts Jumbos | 10/18/1978 | See Source »

...Meyer, at third singles, and Abby Meiselman, at four, both lost close matches in the finals to opponents from Tufts. Meyer fell to aggresive, hard-hitting Jumbo Laurie Gallagher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weekend Round-up: Four | 10/10/1978 | See Source »

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