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Word: lockerful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been "One Term Only"), he let it be known that he intended to play plenty of golf (he used to shoot in the low 703) and take a three-month trip to Europe. But last week 64-year-old Roger Lapham decided to leave his clubs in the locker room and forswear the Grand Tour. The reason: Economic Cooperation Administrator Paul Hoffman had tapped him for chief of ECA's $338 million China aid mission. It was one of the toughest jobs going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: No Idler | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

When Ted was a sophomore at the State University of Iowa, his father went broke in the postwar crash of land prices. Gallup made his own way with a towel service in the college locker room, later as editor of the Daily lowan. He transformed the lowan from a routine college puff sheet into a paper with national news. He began to get interested in why people read certain stories-and how many and which ones they actually do read. After graduation he stayed on at Iowa as a graduate student in psychology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: The Black & White Beans | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...March 18, the employees of the Harvard Club staged a demonstration in protest against what they considered stalling tactics by the management. At 12:55 P.M. the kitchen staff, porters, bartenders, bellboys, doormen, and cleaning staff left their posts and congregated in the locker rooms for an exhibition of solidarity. Fifteen minutes later management representatives came down to the locker rooms and informed the demonstrators that they were no longer employed by the Harvard Club. When the employees refused to leave the building, they were ejected by the police...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Analyzes Harvard Club Strike | 4/10/1948 | See Source »

Through the door of Locker Room No. 30 at Madison Square Garden, a head poked: "Three minutes to go, Mr. Hickey." The sawed-off evangelist in the brown pin stripe nodded and continued his spiel. "The ball belongs to the champion," he said. "Possession! Control! Don't go for the bucket. Wait until the bucket comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Way to Win | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

...Blame Ed. At halftime, in the locker room, St. Louis sucked oranges, watched Coach Hickey-in shirtsleeves-play all five positions, chalk up their errors on the locker-room floor. He wanted four men, not just two or three, to get down fast under the basket after Macauley had snared a rebound ("I can't blame you, Ed. I've coached you to save your strength by coming up slow"). Then, after another Hail Mary huddle, they were back on the floor, and now their famed controlled fast break was really working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Way to Win | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

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