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Word: madnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bowl 70,000 people cheered and hoped and got mad at the referees as only a Harvard-Yale game could provoke them. A good 25,000 were snarled in the pre-game New Haven traffic and missed the opening kickoff. The ten kickoffs that followed more than made...

Author: By Paul Back, | Title: Women, Whiskey, Accidents Flavored Huge Eli Weekend | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...factors, says Harlow, one offensive and one defensive, have taken football out of the sandlot and mad it a science. Complications of shifting defensive formations have not only ulcerated the coach; they have also forced the quarterback to mix psychology and prophecy. Play-caller Chip Gannon, today, may survey the Yale lineup and bend down to call the sure-fire play for his matches. But as the Crimson rushes out of the huddle they may find the Bulldogs just ain't where they're supposed to be. Actually any Yale shifts are only the Ornithologist's birds coming home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Profile | 11/22/1947 | See Source »

Then there are beeg mad cocktail parties after the game where we thaw out-and more parties where we keep thawing...

Author: By Bunny Wintergreen, | Title: So You're Off to New Haven, eh... | 11/21/1947 | See Source »

...dealings with Moe and his brother. They traced a thug named Abe Greenburg to New York, where he confessed that Moe and Gail had put him up to the job. They also found the man with the gun, a short, swart ex-convict, Joe Miller. The boys were pretty mad. Between them they'd made only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Moe the Gonif | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...Godolphin School in Hammersmith, Irish Poet W. B. Yeats was known among his English classmates as "mad Yeats." The school, he wrote, "was an obscene bullying place, where a big boy would hit a small boy in the wind to see him double up, and where certain boys, too young for any emotion of sex, would sing the dirty songs of the streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tales out of School | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

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