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Word: romps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Winthrop's victory margin was impressive it was unsurprising for a team which won its last House game with a 71-18 romp over Adams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop, Grays Hall Crush Bulldogs Win Touch Football Titles | 11/21/1959 | See Source »

Halfback J.T. Baird scored early in the first half to touch off a 26 to 0 Eliot romp over the Leverett football team yesterday. Minutes after Baird's tally, end Jim Dallas recovered a Leverett fumble in the end zone to sew up the game for the Elephants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the House | 10/30/1959 | See Source »

Harvard voters undoubtedly have some sympathy for the rhino romp that marked the Sao Paulo contest. Elections on campus are often conducted in the same sort of spirit, and yield only slightly more fruitful results. Lamont DuPont had thinner skin and a less prominent nose than Carareco, the rhinoceros, but he, too, easily defeated a field of less illustrious candidates. Pogo once roused vigorous support in a local campaign, too vigorous for many. It is good, but a little sad, to commemorate the election of the rhinoceros in another country; for it recalls a day when students here fought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Watch on the Rhino | 10/14/1959 | See Source »

...precisely patterned for some tastes, this comic romp has some appealing and cunningly devised ensemble passages, some adroit characterizations, and the fascination of genius trembling on the verge of its true career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Classical Records | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...doers assembled for the eighth annual National Convention of Square Dancers. On two days the cops roped off Denver's 16th Street, and through most of the week the frisky conventioneers roped off all the city's ballroom and dance-floor space-including shopping centers-to romp for 13½ hours a day through the Paul Jones, the Sicilian Circle, the Soldier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPECTACLES: Hip Squares | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

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