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Word: tape (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meredith '42 followed the tradition of his father, a former Crimson star and Olympic champion, when he sprinted to win the 300 yard run by a good five yards, after trailing only 20 yards from the tape. Meredith's time was 35:2. Fred Ulen '39 and Holmes of the Huskies were clocked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson, Northeastern Track Squads Match Power in Pointless Dual Meet | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...bell. Far & away the best musical show in many a year, it pilfers from Shakespeare the plot of his Comedy of Errors. Otherwise Shakespeare is not smart enough to stay in the combine of George Abbott, Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart, who set themselves a dizzy pace and cross the tape a little ahead of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Dec. 5, 1938 | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

Harvard with 282 points trailed Princeton by 22 and Yale by 35. Brayton crossed the finish line two minutes after Smith had broken the tape for first prize...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Harriers Place Eleventh in New York Meet | 11/15/1938 | See Source »

...play closely. "My interest is in seeing whether they get up." It they don't, or if Green signals, he rushes out as quickly as possible. "I tear out," he says simply. He wears the large black coat principally because it has huge pockets in which lots of adhesive tape may be kept. Keeping things from falling out of the pockets makes him run so stiffly. The player injured will usually have a contusion, abrasion, laceration, sprain, strain, or sometimes a fracture or dislocation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Twelve Doctors Always Ready to Give Professional Aid to Football's Injured | 11/9/1938 | See Source »

...Balanchine has again shown a nice discretion in his adaptation of the ballet to musical comedy; at one point he combines a tap and a ballet to create an extremely pleasing and original number. His "tape-worm" finale to the first act was something of a disappointment, but it looked as if the ensemble and started on the wrong beat; another number entitled "Big Brother" just plan dies--the full chorus is on stage, but nothing happens, and a little boy is expected to carry the pens, and a little boy is expected to carry the number on adolescent cuteness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 11/8/1938 | See Source »

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