Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hits and a miss closed the Radcliffe winter sports season last night, as the 'Cliffe Varsity swimmers and Junior Varsity basketball teams defeated Jackson College, while the Varsity basketball sextet lost by one point. The scores: swimming, 58 to 35; Jayvee basketball, 28 to 17; Varsity basketball...
Belabouring the English language with characteristic unconcern for accuracy, the Yale petition slyly referred to their nefarious weekend as "time-honored." Miss Blanding was undeceived. The Vassar girls will stay...
...emphasis, Webb keeps on shredding the lettuce that he has been shredding. "Life must go on," he explains. Finally he writes a book that exposes the little doings of everyone in the suburb, O'Hara and Young make up like sensible folk, and things are generally looking up, with Miss O'Hara expecting a fourth little boy. Three's a plenty, in spite of that coy look she gives us just before the Coming Attraction flashes on the screen...
...girls from Miss McClellan's and Miss Williams' finishing school once saw Billy Sunday do his stuff at a revival meeting. Like the others, Ruth Page came away humming Brighten the Corner Where You Are. Last week Choreographer Page brightened a corner of Broadway with what she remembered of that meeting...
Newsboys dashed in among the tables, hawking fresh "editions" of the Examiner with screamlines: LOUELLA SURROUNDED! FILM LEADERS IN TRIBUTE TO Miss PARSONS. About midnight, the preliminaries over, the guests settled down to watch the entertainment (Dinah Shore, Edgar Bergen, Eddie Cantor...