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Word: quads (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been tolled 101 times* a vast throng of women, some dressed in the best that Jay's and Liberty's could afford, others in the latest and most gorgeous and flimsy from Paris, began to enter under the imposing tower on St. Aldates into "Tom Quad," illuminated by hundreds of lanterns. Through the archway in the far, left-hand corner, out into the older part of the college toward the Meadows, familiar music greeted the visitors. In the great Dining Hall, none other than Vincent Lopez "and his band," hale and hearty from Yankee-doodledum, were forcing toes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Commem Week | 6/29/1925 | See Source »

...girl can throw the horse-shoe as well as any man. Faculties have long complained of the high costs of athletic teams but horse-shoe pitching Pennsylvanians supply their athletic needs at the nearest smithy. So enthusiastically have the students received the sport that Pennsylvania's "Big Quad" now tinkles with the merry clank of materialized good-luck. A freshman tournament later in the spring is to determine who is the "Champion Freshman Horse-Shoe Pitcher" at Pennsylvania, and keen competition for the title is expected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THROWING THE HORSE-SHOE | 3/11/1922 | See Source »

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