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Word: potomac (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity sailing team scudded through a snowstorm to finish second to Navy in the fourth annual Frostbite Regatta held on the Potomac River Saturday and Sunday. Navy scored 114 points to 108 for Harvard and 104 for Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sailors Take 2nd in Regatta | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

Harvard is favored to win the Potomac Frostbite Regatta today and tomorrow at George Washington University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sailors Race Today In Potomac Regatta | 12/9/1950 | See Source »

Hour exams and low finances forced the varsity to reject a Navy invitation for this weekend at the last minute. The team members have decided instead to go to the Potomac Frostbite Meet at Washington, D.C. on December...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Sailors Drop Plans for Navy Race | 11/18/1950 | See Source »

Secret Service men hustled him out a rear entrance and into his gold-trimmed Lincoln limousine. Convoyed by automobile loads of hard-faced agents, the big car rolled out of the drive, and off across the Potomac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Fanatics' Errand | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

Knives were flashing in Washington. A new victim had drawn into sight: Alan Valentine, the newly appointed Economic Stabilization director. He had been promisingly launched as a sensible educator, a middle-of-the-road businessman, a Quaker and a Rhodes scholar. Then the Potomac knife throwers went to work. Their efforts provided a fascinating peek at how such things work in the nation's capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Treatment | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

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