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Word: squash (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most part came in one of the most successful springs ever seen in Cambridge: the first three quarters of the football game against Princeton, the soccer team's rout of Yale, the basketball team's surprising successes, the destruction of the Ivy League by the hockey team, the squash team's near miss against Yale, and the consistent wins of the track team. The spring saw one success after another by the Eastern championship baseball and tennis teams, Joel Landau's astounding victories in leading the track team to the rout over Yale, and the lightweight crew's domination...

Author: By James W.B. Benkard, | Title: End of Another Year in Harvard Sports; Recapitulation, Hindsight and Preview | 6/3/1958 | See Source »

...between Djakarta and Washington. President Sukarno and his beautiful fourth wife, Hartini, made an unprecedented visit to Ambassador Jones's Dutch colonial residence for lunch. Sukarno jovially shook hands with the four U.S. marines of the embassy guard; he toasted President Eisenhower and the American people in orange squash. Purred another guest, Foreign Minister Subandrio: "We insiders, who know the process of thinking of Dulles and the setup of the State Department, realize that Indonesian-U.S. relations are improving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Winksmanship | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...well-cared-for 1956 Cadillac. "They're not comfortable, and I'm afraid I'll wind up under somebody's front bumper. Why, the other day I saw a small foreign car with a sign saying: 'Don't run over me. I squash bugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: On the Slow Road | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

...miles around is the public high school, and there are only three theaters in the entire town. When seeking relief from the academic life, therefore, the average Princeton man invariably turns to his club. There he not only takes all his meals, but forms friendships, watches television, plays squash or bridge or ping-pong, drinks, parties, holds bull sessions, and even studies. Unless he's on a varsity team, its intramural program is his only athletic outlet, and, when he becomes an alumnus, its activities will form the foci for found memories, homecoming weekends, and pleas for financial support. More...

Author: By John E. Mcnees, | Title: The Quest at Princeton For the Cocktail Soul | 2/21/1958 | See Source »

...fencing team, with one loss on its record will square off against Columbia in New York Saturday afternoon. The Lions won the 1956-57 Ivy crown and have been undefeated in Ivy competition since the league was formed in the 1955-56 season. The undefeated squash team, and the wrestlers have no scheduled events this week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Teams Reopen Schedules This Week | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

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