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...outdoor basketball and tennis courts also made way for the new gym. Harvard men could no longer climb the high wooden fence surrounding the basketball area to snicker at the female athletes in their white middles, red bloomers, and black stockings...

Author: By Deborah Labenow, | Title: Annex Gymnasium Marks 50th Year As Basketball, Bowling Top Sports | 3/10/1949 | See Source »

Perhaps Americans ought to listen to the Moscow radio more. What they have been missing was disclosed this week by a monitored transcript of a Christmas broadcast, beamed in English to North America. A heavyhanded tale of Santa Claus and the FBI, the broadcast would make most U.S. citizens snicker. But after the snickers would come a little better sizing-up of the Soviet Communist mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: Soviet Soap Opera | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...York Times permitted itself a genteel snicker: EGA UNDERWRITES LAUGHTER FOR GERMANS ; FINANCES COMIC AS WELL AS TRUE LOVE TALES. The story from Berlin, by Timesman Edward A. Morrow, * said that Generals Clay and Robertson had "approved" requests from Pulpsters Fawcett and Macfadden that they be guaranteed against loss in selling $87,000 a year worth of comic books, True Confessions, True Police Cases, etc., in Germany. A women's club convention in Manhattan promptly viewed the matter with shrill alarm, and the Christian Science Monitor huffed that it was an outrage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Loud Repore | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: 1,000 Lost Golf Balls | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...York City's Van Cortlandt Park this week, a serious-faced group of aspirants-with bare legs and a sprinkling of bald heads-lined up for the big tryout in the 10,000-meter walking race. At the start, a few irreverent spectators began to snicker. The walkers, strutting along with exaggerated hip-wiggles, took no notice. They are used to playing to laughs every time they perform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: One Foot on the Ground | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

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