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Word: spang (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Association, presided over by Joseph P. Spang, Jr. '15, donated the sum to the band this summer when they were seeking funds to travel to Stanford for the football opener. When last minute difficulties forced the band to cancel their trip, the Association permitted them to keep their contribution, a portion of which had already been spent for organizational expenses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Makes Surprise Visit to Boston Party | 10/28/1949 | See Source »

...instance, the locals showed in spang new leather suits which thoroughly surprised everyone. And one year they showed up with Percy Haughton, a great punter and an even greater coach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Has 16-11 Edge in Army Rivalry | 10/15/1949 | See Source »

...Harvard's spang new Lamont Library is off limits to Radcliffe. Most girls are like the one in the picture directly below, on the outside looking in on the air conditioned wonders of the new library...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: 'Cliffe-Harvard Going Steady After 70 Years | 6/22/1949 | See Source »

...rancorous old Dixiecrat John Rankin had been nursing his wounds and biding his time. He had been bent on revenge ever since House Democrats unceremoniously kicked him off the publicity-making Un-American Activities Committee. Last week, like an angry mosquito, he circled, swooped and stung Congress spang on one of its most sensitive political spots. Over the loud protests of his Veterans' Affairs Committee (seven members walked out on him), Chairman Rankin highhandedly rammed through a staggering pension bill which seemed designed as much to pay back his congressional enemies as to pay off the veterans. No Congressman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Rankin's Revenge | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Harvard substitutions: Sigourney, Spang, Hudner, Doyle, Edmonds, Hughes, Harris, Colton, Maloney, Stearns, Boughton, Stensrud, Rosenau, Connors, Carman, O'Neill, Rodgers, Powell, Bahn, Emmons, Lindsay, Brady, Sawyer, Stone, Warden...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Crimson Bids for Total Football, Soccer Sweep | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

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