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Word: quarte (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Affectionately referred to by the team as the Ice Cream Relays, the race assumed a friendly intrasquad air rather than the competitive aura of a dual meet. The winners, John Bruce, Craig Hardin, Dick Greer, and Paco Canales, each earned a quart of ice cream from the coach for their efforts...

Author: By Sanford R. Cardin, | Title: Swimmers Emerge As Victors, 65-48; Divers, Wolf Excel | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

People line up at UHS every morning of exams all plagued with various ailments. Lots of people have theories on how to make yourself sick enough to get out of a final: eat a lot of aspirin and drink a Coke; eat spoiled mayonnaise; polish off a quart of Charles River water; swallow chunks of chewing tobacco; say you're hearing voices (how can they tell?). One guy had his roomate smash his finger with a hammer. "It seemed like a good idea at the time," he says...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann and Richard Turner, S | Title: In the Bunker | 1/28/1976 | See Source »

...against Yale. With all the ferocity of rivals who are more alike than dissimiliar, the fans exhort their team to demolish the oppostion. They chant cheers as refined as "Fair Harvard" or "Bingo, bingo, that's the lingo" (written by Cole Porter, Yale '13), and as unrefined as "A quart is two pints, a gallon is four quarts; Harvard men will eat Yale's shorts." While on the field the men of Yale and Harvard battle in what for many will be their final football game, and their most memorable. There is much pride involved, at times more for those...

Author: By Robert L. Ullman, | Title: Clotheslines and Leather | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

...Soft drinks in liter-size bottles are being tested by Seven-Up. Slogan: "A quart and a liter bit more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Think Metric | 6/9/1975 | See Source »

...mood was already very ugly. I nursed a quart of beer and a smoke in the back row with my friend and an 8-year-old who knew every line of every Stooges movie (I swear it) and looked around for a cop, or Derek cop, or something...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: A Night With The Stooges | 3/20/1975 | See Source »

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