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Word: pies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beyond these two features the "Bunny Hatch" has little to distinguish it from the rest of the red-bricked edifices along Memorial Drive, mainly because no single activity has mustered much response in the House. Instead, Leverett men dabble in almost every pie around the University, without leaving much time for strictly House activities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bunnies Inactive In House, Thrive Everywhere Else | 3/26/1948 | See Source »

...divide the day-long session in half, the people spent two hours over the dinner table heaped with meat, beans, salads, brown bread, pie, and coffee. Here they exchanged the latest gossip, talked about taxes, fire protection, and the price of milk. Then they went back upstairs to the meeting hall, the moderator called the meeting to order again and election of officers took place...

Author: By Charles R. Conklin, | Title: Grass Roots Democracy, 1948 Version | 3/11/1948 | See Source »

...Harold ("Pie") Traynor, Pittsburgh Pirates' great third baseman and hitter of the '20s and '30s (his lifetime batting average: .320), was admitted to the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N.Y., with the late, great Yankee pitcher Herb Pennock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

This second and smaller section looks slightly more like the conventional cellar, with the ceiling now criss-crossed by bare pipes. Several rooms, such as the noise and anechoic chambers, are of a completely technical nature. The curved eastern end of the building squeezes several rooms into pie-shaped sectors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Modern Memorial Hall Basement Could Easily Hold Activities Center | 3/4/1948 | See Source »

Mack Sennett, pie-tossing old (64) master of slapstick now enjoying a revival (three studios are said to have considered making a film about his life), mourned that "comedy is becoming a lost art." He recommended a return to first principles: "We kicked hell out of mothers-in-law, but we never touched mothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cast of Characters | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

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