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Word: pongs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to Bingham, the new grill will be open from 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. on Monday through Thursday nights. The Union's other facilities, such as pool, ping-pong and the record collection, will operate on the same schedule...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Union Grill Will Stay Open Until 12:30 | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...core of "resident commuters," however, its problems as a commuter center are far from solved. In an article in the Dudley Reporter (the House's dittographed newspaper), a student claims that, for 80 per cent of commuters, "Dudley is no more than an occasional snack bar, and a ping-pong and dance hall for most of the others." He continues: "The same names appear with monotonous regularity in the House Committee, Dance Committee, sports events, at dances, and on the Reporter's masthead. The number of Dudley men who, by being active in the affairs of the Housee would derive...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Still Needed: 'Real House' for Non-Residents | 5/7/1959 | See Source »

...girl from Barnard explained that the Harvard men who attend jolly-ups are "generally undesirable." Discussing the seven dorms which have held or are planning jolly-ups, another, from Briggs, said "chacun a son gout," and mused over the possibility of buying a ping-pong table with the money saved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffies View Men | 2/19/1959 | See Source »

...second singles, captain Charlie Hamm won the only quick match of the day, 15-5, 15-7, 15-6. On courts as hot as those in Annapolis such a score is astonishing. The squash ball heats up and bounds like a ping-pong ball around the court, making the put-away shots which are so necessary in regulation courts almost impossible. Another reason for Hamm's easy win is probably that he is definitely the wrong man on whom to try the usual Navy rough-'em-up style, as such tactics often elicit a response in kind from...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Hot Courts, Rowdy Crowd Defeat Varsity Squash Team, 6-3, at Navy | 2/14/1959 | See Source »

...stage blazed with barbaric lights and colors, reflecting the influence of the Peking opera troupe's Berlin visit two years ago. Time and again the action jolted the audience to attention, most notably during the Marx Brothers-styled high jinks of the three ministers-Ping, Pang and Pong-and in the final act when the hero, Calaf, took Princess Turandot in his arms and arched her backward in one of the most torrid embraces ever seen on an opera stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Two Faces of Turandot | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

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