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Word: tossing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...easy as it is to toss off Saturday cuts as another evidence of Harvard individualism, the problem goes deeper than this. Cutting classes is like drinking or dope; it starts innocuously enough, and usually on the weekend. For example, a naive undergraduate finds he would like to go home to his sister's wedding, and as fate would have it, the event falls on a Saturday. Feeling very guilty, he nevertheless goes home and has a wonderful time, and strangely enough wakes up Monday morning with no guilt complex at all. The next weekend he decides to sleep through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Rake's Conveyor | 5/7/1954 | See Source »

With Pete Harpel breaking the record for the hammer throw, the freshman track team also crushed Brown, 108 to 32. Harpel's toss of 157' 4" broke Whitey Black's 153' 7 1/4" made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dow Ties Record In 110-30 Victory | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

Half a million Britons lined the banks of the U-shaped Thames River course, jammed rooftops and windows, even clustered in treetops for just a short glimpse of the shells. The crowd broke into spontaneous cheers as underdog Oxford, favored by toss and its choice of the largely inside (Surrey) bank, broke into the lead at the halfway mark. From then on. while Cambridge floundered in the choppy water in midstream. Oxford pulled steadily ahead, won by a handy 4½ lengths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The 100th Race | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

...article on McCarthy and R. M. Chapin Jr.'s drawing were a tremendous effort to show McCarthy for what he truly is . . . I am becoming more & more convinced that somebody should toss fair play out the window and use McCarthy's own methods against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 22, 1954 | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

Prospects of no beer, ice-borne music, and a toss-up finale to the hockey season await a capacity crowd at the Garden tonight. Captain Normie Wood leads his league champions against Pentagonal runner-up Yale at 9 p.m. Yardlings meet Bullpups in the 7 p.m. preliminary...

Author: By John J. Iselin, | Title: Varsity Hockey Team Meets Yale Tonight | 3/6/1954 | See Source »

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