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Word: oed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story of Cat Island [TIME, Nov. 7] is told in full by Frederick O'Brien in his book Atolls of the Sun (Century Co.; 1922) . . . I don't wonder that it could not be found on maps, because Cat Island is not its name. Its real name is Tetiaroa, and it lies about 30 miles north of Tahiti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...Square merchants just don't care. George O'Brien of the Harvard Provision Company said yesterday that "it won't make any different to us. Students drink as much when there isn't a football game as they do when there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's a Week Without any Weekend For the First Time Since Summer | 11/26/1949 | See Source »

...about "bringing the team up for the games." In these days of two platoon football, they just don't go out and "win one for the Gipper" any more. It is far more important to hire a sound football coach than one who can sound like Pat O'Brien in the locker room between the halves. There is, of course, something to the theory that the team which is up for the game plays better than it ordinarily does. But we feel that this point is over-emphasized, and that 49 times out of 50 the fundamentally sound team will...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, Donald Carswell, and Bayard Hooper, S | Title: Harvard Football: Which Way Out? | 11/25/1949 | See Source »

Contenders for the position include the following juniors: Sam Butler, Bob Di Blasio, Arthur Hyde, Phil Isenberg, Jerry Kanter, Paul O'Brien, Bill Rosenau, Henry Sedgwick, John West, John White, and Al Wilson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fall Sports Pick '50 Captains Today | 11/22/1949 | See Source »

After Miss Helen Maud Cam, Radcliffe Professor of History, and Frank Day Tuttle, professor of Drama at Smith College, extolled the work of the Arts Theater at Cambridge University, England, and of the active drama department at Smith, F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, and Brattle Theater Director Jerome T. Kilty '49, came to the defense of dramatic activity at Harvard. Kilty claimed University support and guidance a necessary factor but said he felt a separate dramatic department would detract from the regular general Harvard education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Idler Panel Sees Need of Theater | 11/22/1949 | See Source »

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