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Word: tease (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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"A Harvard passer, standing only four yards behind the line of scrimmage, completed a teas to a mate on Yale's 41 yard line. The receiver, in trying to lateral, threw the ball forward. This player in turn dashed down the field and was chased out of bounds on the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELI LINE COACH WELLS TELLS MOVIE STORY ON H-Y CONTEST | 1/18/1939 | See Source »

In 1932, when he returned to Harvard for a year as Charles Eliot Norton Professor, U. S. critics seethed to see him wince at Americanisms, to hear him admit he had little knowledge of U. S. poetry or interest in it. He gave reticent teas, at which young Harvard intellectuals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tom to T. S. | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

William's palace is today the nucleus of Britain's National Physical Laboratories, an analogue of the Bureau of Standards in the U. S. Comprising nearly 30 buildings scattered over 50 acres, the Teddington laboratories check weights and measures, test and develop new materials for industry. It was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fifth Director | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Intended to the entirely personal in appeal to the Deacons, the articles and photographs deal with typically house activities such as the Tuesday afternoon teas at Professor and Mrs. Clark's. There will be several pages devoted to quasi-fiction, in which reference will be made to different house members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Candid Camera Shots Will Be Featured in Deacons' Year Book | 5/18/1938 | See Source »

At a recent dinner, Wartime Secretary of War Newton D. Baker was shocked to see two graduates of unrevealed colleges using a "banjo grip" on their forks. To Cleveland's Western Reserve University, of which he is chairman of the board of trustees, Newton Baker (a Johns Hopkins man...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 27, 1937 | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

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