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Word: montreal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winner of Monday's match will earn the right to travel to Montreal on Tuesday to play the University of Montreal, Canadian League winners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Playoff With Green Set if Sextet Wins | 3/12/1949 | See Source »

...Montreal 2, Chicago...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Sports | 3/10/1949 | See Source »

Because of the uncertainty which has developed around boat travel, the NSA has secured 20 seats for Harvard students on DC4's. The flight, run by the Trans-Canadian Airways, will leave Montreal for London about June 25 and return around September...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Ships Probably Will Run; NSA Secures Air Space | 3/3/1949 | See Source »

Most enterprising campaign manager was Dunbar Rapier, a Negro third-year premedical student, whose candidate was Beryl Dickinson-Dash, 21-year-old daughter of a Montreal railway porter. Rapier posed Beryl before the snow sculpture decorating the campus for carnival week, then tacked the photographs all over the campus. He persuaded Montreal radio shows to get in a word for his candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Winter Queen | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...week's end, when Montreal's Mayor Camellien Houde puffed up to McGill for the carnival ball, he put the crown on Beryl Dickinson-Dash's head. In the voting by McGill's 8,500 students (150 of them Negroes), Beryl had posted a decisive margin. The student council gave out no figures ("It might injure the other girls"), but it was satisfied with the election result. McGill's students, untroubled by any race problem, had merely voted for a popular and attractive girl, regardless of the color of her skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Winter Queen | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

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