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Word: paints (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clusive carfull of B. U. students paid a surprise visit to Cambridge shortly before 2 o'clock this morning, leaving a trail of red paint and posters proclaiming a mammoth B. U. football rally tomorrow night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B. U. Vandals Daub Houses | 10/2/1947 | See Source »

Yard police were unaware of any subversive activity until a phone call informed them of the paint-and-poster attack. Several student night-owis reported seeing a car containing four students at various points along Mill Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B. U. Vandals Daub Houses | 10/2/1947 | See Source »

...Fresh paint was discovered by police after the visitors had departed from the Yard, but was easily removed before it had dried...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B. U. Vandals Daub Houses | 10/2/1947 | See Source »

Resistance to the invasion stiffened about three quarters of an hour after the paint first appeared, when half a dozen undergraduates, led by Thomas R. Morse '48, of Lowell House circled Soldiers Field in an ancient automobile. They met no marauders, it was reported...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B. U. Vandals Daub Houses | 10/2/1947 | See Source »

...special assistant, had unsuspectingly come dressed in white shirt and pants. As Truman chuckled gleefully, Steelman was laid out on the tin "operating table," prodded with an electrically charged knife, and given a gargle of quinine and lemon extract from a huge hypodermic syringe. Then he was plastered with paint, run through a gauntlet of shellbacks wielding stuffed canvas paddles, up steps with electrically charged handrails. After another gargle, he was pushed into a tilting chair and dumped backward into the ducking pool, where seven blackened sailors ducked him vigorously. Then he was shoved down a greased slide, belabored through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: No. I Pollywog | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

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