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Word: septet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When I heard the band in New York, I was exceedingly impressed with the dancibility of the band, and their swing septet that really plays swing. In other words, they don't work out very flossy arrangements and then tell everybody that they made them up on the second. It's strictly ab lib, and soft, and very good...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

...septet sallying against B. U. Friday, only three have run cross country for the Varsity or Freshmen before this year. Penn Tuttle, who is filling Ros Brayton's shoes more than adequately as captain this year, was right up front in the Yale plod. Gene Clark is short on training because he was delayed in returning from abroad, but Jaakko considered him enough of an old-timer to run Friday; he trailed the first Blue man in last quarter...

Author: By Paul I. Carp, | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/5/1939 | See Source »

When the biggest thing on the air is a dummy and the biggest thing in moving pictures is a septet of gnomes America is certainly tottering toward the fiery pit, albeit in a pleasantly pixilated fashion. A nation, like a human being, is most successfully judged by what if does in its leisure hours, and by using the films as an index it is a simple thing to trace the growth of these United States...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/12/1938 | See Source »

Yesterday afternoon the fall series of inter-fraternity, indoor baseball came to an end with the defeat of Kappa Nu septet by the Kappa Sigma team, the score being 5 to 1 for a nine-inning game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTRA-MURAL SPORTS TO BEGIN WINTER SEASON | 1/13/1931 | See Source »

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