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Word: meannesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roosevelt's plaque shares the wall by the west door with a statue of Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy, 1666-1732; a statue to William Pitt the Younger; a memorial to Jeremiah Horrocks, d. 1641 (who "detected the long inequality in the mean motion of Jupiter and Saturn"), and one to the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: To a Faithful Friend | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

Yale weekends at Harvard always mean the influx of athletic teams, always in good numbers. Acting as hosts to the members of these squads is perhaps the biggest job of the Key, but it is one that the group has found most easy to handle...

Author: By Albert J. Feldman, | Title: Crimson Key Society Will Paint Town Red for Blue Infiltrators | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...Although groundskeepers covered the Stadium sward with canvas last night, the rain which weather forecasters say will continue throughout today may eventually mean slippery footing and a wet ball--which would hurt Valpey's precise, ballet-like single wing spinners and pitchouts more than it would affect Hickman's straight-ahead T attack...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: First Valpey Squad Favored to Whip Yale in 65th Annual Struggle Today | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...doesn't mean a thing. When the two teams go out on Soldiers Field from the Dillon Field House today, they will leave their records in the dressing rooms just as they have every time Harvard and Yale have played...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: Thrilling Upsets Spark Harvard-Yale Clashes | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...which keeps his precision plus a 13-hour work day from turning him into an automaton. His sense of humor also helps. When a fan asked him after the Princeton game if Harvard had lost because it had not spent enough time on defense, he answered, "What do you mean? We spent all Saturday afternoon on defense...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Valpey Puts Football on Road Back | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

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