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Word: packed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interesting to landlubbers, though, is the Gallup poll which E. W. Garrison has made of the Harvard sailors. The local gobs prefer destroyers to battleships, ships to planes, and blondes or brunettes to redheads. More than half the men don't smoke, and only a few go through a pack per day. Freshmen and Seniors are ardent Wellesley fans, with Smith winning the Sophomoric hearts and Vassar neck and neck with Bennington for the Juniors. Personality is first and beauty a close second in the qualities Harvard gobs seek when they get in port--except for the Junior class which...

Author: By E. G., | Title: ON THE SHELF | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...among the Big Three, Ec, Gov, and History, undisputed preference of undergraduates for the past decade. It was a surprised little group yesterday when they counted up the totals and found that that faded favorite of fifteen years ago, that dark horse among the fields, English, had led the pack for the first time since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English Uber Alles | 3/18/1941 | See Source »

...told a London Daily Express reporter. "If I do not get a favorable reply to my application to leave Spain tomorrow, I will go on a hunger strike!" Carol and Magda continued to eat heartily in the luxurious Andalusia Palace Hotel, onetime Mecca of wealthy tourists who used to pack-jam Seville each year for Easter. Madame Lupescu continued to stroll in the gardens with her four dogs while Carol showed the same roving eye as ever for beauteous female barflies. No longer a great romance but the tie-up of a weak man and a strong woman, the Carol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: Hohenzollern Hegira | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

Their magnificent, subtly curved horns spread eight and nine feet tip to tip, and they were such sky-hardened athletes it was said you could pack all the roasting meat of any one of them into the hollow of one of those horns. A Longhorn bull was known to gore the life out of a grizzly; another scattered a U. S. regiment that had stood against Santa Anna. James Bowie used to ride amongst them, knifing them down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: History with Horns | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

Divorced. William du Pont Jr., 46, banker-sportsman member of the Wilmington Du Ponts; from Jean Austin du Pont, his wife for 22 years; for cruelty; in Reno. Brushing aside questions about whether he meant to marry Tennist Alice Marble, Banker du Pont rushed to pack his bags, fly to see his Fairy Chant lose the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 10, 1941 | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

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