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Word: moraga (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better. The first player gets into a telephone booth. Then another, then another, then another. In South Africa, 25 six-footers crammed in. Fortnight ago, 15 boys made it in Cambridge, and 19 squeezed in at Hatfield Technical College, near London. Then St. Mary's College in Moraga, Calif, claimed 22 ("the smallest guys on the campus''-see cut). For the benefit of Modesto (Calif.) Junior College, the telephone company got into the act. warily provided a booth that provided room for 32. But the Modesto coup clearly could not stand unchallenged. For one thing, the booth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: Number, Please? | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...years of football, little (enrollment: 695) St. Mary's College in Moraga, Calif, has had more than its share of top-notch teams. But last season's record was discouraging: seven losses in ten games, and a deficit of about $75,000. Moreover, school officials foresaw a deep cut in enrollments, due to enlistments and the draft. Last week St. Mary's announced the suspension of the game "for the duration of the national emergency." It was the first U.S. college to make such a decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: For the Duration | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

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