Word: tims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week this sports renaissance had gone far. Because Honduras had beaten Guatemala in the Central American futbol championship series being played at San José, Costa Rica, futbol-converted Carias ordered church bells rung, proclaimed a three-day national holiday. Dizzy with victory, he offered his tim $1,000 if it won the series. But despite prize money and bell-ringing, Costa Rica came in first, Guatemala second, Honduras fifth...
...Latin American sports argot contains many words borrowed from English and Hispanicized. Examples: beisbol, jutbol, tim, picker...
Richard T. Gill '48, of Adams House, was elected President of the Harvard Liberal Union at a meeting held Wednesday evening. Thomas Caulfield '48, of Adams House, and Tim Miller '48, of Lowell House were elected Vice-President and Secretary respectively. Treasurer of the group will be Saul Sherman '47, of McKinlock Hall, and Member-at-large on the Executive Committee will be Irwin Leff '47, of Adams House...
...Hearst papers will drop two minor-league strips, Tim Tyler's Luck and Jungle Jim, will sneak them back in when the creators get their boys into more peaceful pursuits...
...dawn, a B-25 and the last transport would take off, carrying Brigadier General Clinton ("Casey") Vincent, his tactical staff, General "Tim" Timberman. Chief of Ground Forces, David Lee ("Tex") Hill. On the ground then would remain only the last demolition men under Colonel Waldo Kenerson, to blow the last field, the last buildings; and Major George Hightower to make sure no air-corps strays were left behind at the last minute...