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Word: teas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard squashmen knocked over a traditionally strong McGill tea, 7-0, at Hemenway Gymnasium last Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McGill Bows, 7-0, In Squash Match | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...Tea with Talbot. Though critics had long known of some lost Boswell manuscripts, it was not until 1926 that an inquiring scholar reported that he had seen a box of them at Ireland's Malahide Castle, home of Boswell's great-great-grandson Lord Talbot. U.S. Bibliophile A.S.W. Rosenbach immediately cabled an offer of $250,000 for the lot. Lord Talbot huffily refused ("Who is this person?" he demanded). Another U.S. collector tried a different approach: he dropped in for tea. Courtly Lieut. Colonel Ralph H. Isham, a Yale man who had served in the British Army during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Compleat Boswell | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...palace to stay. On Sunday the King tinkered with his cameras and tried to read, while Elizabeth, under the watchful eye of her nurse, Helen Rowe, and her maid, Margaret ("Bobo") MacDonald, sat around and listened to the radio or telephoned friends. At 6 p.m., just after the family tea, Elizabeth's pains began. Nurse Rowe rushed her to the delivery room and summoned Sir William. Within an hour three more doctors had slipped into the palace by the electricians' gate in the rear. Philip went moodily down to knock a squash ball around the palace court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Prince Has Been Born | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...This tea will be part of a nation-wide NSA program to celebrate International Students' Day tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Fetes Foreign Students at NSA Tea | 11/17/1948 | See Source »

...entire Annex student body is also invited to the tea, Mary C. Stokes '51, chairman of the committee organizing the affair, has announced. Special invitations will be sent to the 65 foreign students at Radcliffe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Fetes Foreign Students at NSA Tea | 11/17/1948 | See Source »

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