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Word: mural (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 24--Playing soccer on wet grass in gym shoes is like trying to eat soup with a fork--it doesn't work too well. But Dunster still managed to eke out a 2-0 victory over Branford, Yale's intra-mural soccer champion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dunster Takes Soccer Crown | 11/25/1961 | See Source »

Yale did manage to salvage a victory in the other intra-mural soccer contest. However, Adams was short three men as they lost to Saybrook...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dunster Takes Soccer Crown | 11/25/1961 | See Source »

...with him. Their life together is the scrounging, violent hell without which she would have been disappointed. And Gorer keeps on painting, and cursing and talking-lewdly, sharply, wisely-and grabbing any woman who comes within his surprising reach. Commissioned by a genteel millionaire named Hanshawe to restore a mural in his country house, Gorer uses his idle time to seduce Mrs. Hanshawe. But this time Gorer gets his comeuppance. For Hanshawe retaliates by luring Cassy away from Gorer and marries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Genuine Fake | 11/10/1961 | See Source »

Both von Stade and Nathaniel A. Parker, Director of Physical Training, maintained that the PT program is "the heart of the intra-mural athletic system at Harvard...

Author: By Bruce L. Paisner, | Title: College to Remain Firm About PT Requirement | 9/27/1961 | See Source »

...century there lived in China a great painter named Chang Seng-yu, who one day finished a mural of four white dragons without eyes. When observers protested the omission, Chang pointed out that to give such fierce dragons sight might be dangerous. His critics persisted; Chang gave in and painted eyes on two of the dragons. "At once," the story goes, "the air became filled with thunder and lightning, the wall broke down, and the dragons ascended on clouds to heaven. But the two other dragons who had no eyes remained in their places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: From a Peking Palace | 9/15/1961 | See Source »

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