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Word: spa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after a few moments, an elderly woman spectator entered the Harvard Spa, opposite Lamont Liberary, purchased some tomatoes, and hurled them at the sound truck. A crowd congregated and overflowed into Massachusetts Avenue, stalling traffic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Throng Stops Dever Truck | 10/24/1952 | See Source »

Reactions from newsstand and spa owners in the Square were varied. One storekeeper's comment on girlie magazines and other quasi-erotica was, "I feel bashful just handling them. We try and carry as few of those things as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Police Start New Campaign Against Sexy News Stand Wares | 11/10/1951 | See Source »

...best, crowed with delight. Bragged the Daily Mirror: "Turpin became world champion without any of the hokum that Americans have used to bedazzle and bamboozle their opponents before the fight." London's anti-American, middlebrow New Statesman and Nation felt a primitive thrill: "The local boy from Leamington Spa became the giant-killer and we all felt bigger and better in consequence . . . Europe had risen from the gutter and thrashed the Prince of the Dollar Empire ... Morale rises ... Even the Government becomes our Government and can be sure of re-election on such a morning after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sugar's Lumps | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

Maybe they call it erotica, but local college students like their sex wrapped up in pulp paper for spare time reading just as much as their less-educated contemporaries, a survey of Square newspaper stand operators, spa keepers, and candy store owners disclosed this week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sex Still Supercharges Pulp Trade | 7/12/1951 | See Source »

...five-man crime investigating committee, gave it $250,000 and subpoena power and told it to look into ties between crime and "any unit of government anywhere in the state." He also ordered a special grand-jury investigation of Saratoga Springs, the horsy spa only 30 miles from the governor's mansion where gambling has been going on for years, though the governor seemed surprised to hear about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: After Kefauver | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

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