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Word: steams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about the only thing its thousands of students have in common is Robert Gordon Sproul. The lonely bigness of Berkeley helps to explain why the Cal rooting section* at football games is not only the world's largest but at times its most raucous. Undergraduates sometimes blow off steam by deluging neighbors with pillow feathers and toilet paper, and loudly counting out the steps as the referee paces off a penalty against Cal, ending up with a thunderous "You Bastard!" When Stanford beat Cal in last year's Big Game, 25-6, disgruntled Cal rooters tore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Big Man on Eight Campuses | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

...proved both more fair and accommodating. And the early seat application deadlines enable the H.A.A. high command to minimize accurately the stag environs and maximize the more colorful areas of the arena. Taking conscientious account of the swollen enrollment of the University, the inevitability of some lines, and the steam age era design of the Stadium... the new plan works quite well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pasteboard Peace | 10/1/1947 | See Source »

Beyond this, Harry Truman also had a somewhat personal problem. The 1948 presidential race was heating up, but all the steam so far was on the Republican side (see Political Notes). Harry Truman, who is not a master of stimulating interest in his own party, might soon have to reverse an earlier decision and follow Tom Dewey, Harold Stassen and Bob Taft around the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Leadership | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

Within a week or two members of the Class of '51 will get their first chance to hear the College's only radio station since the Network began broadcasting over the Yard steam heating pipes in 1941--an experiment that lasted only three weeks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rechristened, Network Sets For '51 Debut | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

Within a week or two Yardlings will get their first chance to hear the College's only radio station since the Network began broadcasting over the Yard Steam heating pipes in 1941--an experiment that lasted only three weeks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Network to Wire Yard Halls Soon; First Broadcast to Houses Monday | 9/18/1947 | See Source »

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