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Word: mascot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Handles. In East St. Louis, Edward J. Japps changed his last name to Sinai. In Birmingham a waitress whose first name is Pearl hoped to become a Navy mascot: her last name is Harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 16, 1942 | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

Bitterly the Review's admirers observe that football at thrifty L.S.U. last year cost the student body a special subsidy of $61,000; that the football team's mascot, a tiger named Mike, requires ten pounds of choice beef daily while his specially constructed, steam-heated home is carried on the books at $6,692.02. But football is part of the life of the Delta. Says the budget committee of the Southern Review: "The committee does not feel that the university can continue to support so heavily an activity which relatively reaches so small a number of people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Obit In Baton Rouge | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

...extremists set out to restore the military aristocracy, to dominate the Gov ernment, to make the sacrosanct Emperor what the brilliant former editor of the Kobe Japan Chronicle, A. Morgan Young, has called - since he left Japan in 1937 -the "Grand Mascot" of warriors rather than of monopoly capitalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Safety Razor | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

Leverett's mascot bunny came out of hiding yesterday morning for one of the few times since its capture by a Funsterman several years ago and cavorted around the Yard chasing women and hopping grotesquely on its hind feet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOUR HOUSES TO SPONSOR DANCES YALE WEEKEND | 10/18/1941 | See Source »

Paramount producer Sol Siegel was inspired to offer the tiger role in "World Premiere" to the Princeton mascot, but just as he was making the offer, Barrymore walked in, was informed of the offer, and flatly refused to work with the animal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOHN BARRYMORE TURNS DOWN NASSAU'S TIGER AS CO-STAR | 3/28/1941 | See Source »

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