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Word: roof (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...varsity worked out doggedly and quietly before 57,000 empty seats, oblivious of the cheers and yells outside. It was the same routine the squad had run through every Friday afternoon all season, and only the presence of a few more newsmen and a few more workers on the roof denoted the biggest of all days ahead...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Rally on Widener Steps Ends Pre-Game Hoopla | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...Yale game--with what William James called the "moral equivalents of war," the safe ways of working off man's aggressive tendencies. Perhaps football is a moral equivalent which will someday save us all, but even this happy prospect cannot account for the standees on the Stadium roof and the 10,000 extra olives at the Ritz...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Yale Game | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

Only 65 tickets--50 of them on the roof--were turned in to the HAA yesterday afternoon but none of them will be available for resale to the general public, ticket manager Frank O. Lunden announced last night. Yesterday was the last official day for returning ducats...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Very Few Tickets Returned to HAA | 11/19/1948 | See Source »

Thus the Wursthaus will receive its errant balloon, which disappeared from the roof of the building Saturday night. Robert Menslage '50 will receive his reward for capturing the aerial float which he claims to have retrieved from the winds when it had broken loose after the Brown football game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wursthaus Pays $50, Gets Back One Balloon | 11/16/1948 | See Source »

...thieves apparently ascended to the roof by the stairs around 5:30 p.m. Saturday, hauled in the eight foot structure, deflated it, and walked off. A student reported seeing a group of men carrying it down Massachusetts Avenue around dinner time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wursthaus Balloon Is Gone For Second Time in Month | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

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