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Word: totem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Barclay's Varsity quintet will throw its record, bottom grimace on the Ivy League totem pole, onto the Arena court against the Eli at 9:30 o'clock in a do-or-die attempt to save its season. Yale stands sixth in the seven-team circuit with an unimpressive two-win, seven-loss record to the Crimson's one victory and seven defeats...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Major Weekend Events Crowd Crimson Sports Scene | 3/5/1948 | See Source »

Lowell continued on its late-season climb up the basketball ladder yesterday, while Eliot House, top grin on the Straus trophy totem pole, split its double slate, dropping a tight basketball game to Dunster and drubbing the Kirkland House skaters at the Arena...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot, Lowell, Funster Win In House Tilts | 2/20/1948 | See Source »

...Start at the bottom of the totem pole if you hope to break into radio," four experts told a job-seeking audience at Kirkland House last night. All speakers at the Placement Office's third Career Conference agreed that beginners can find virtually no openings in big-time stations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Job Forum Hears Warning of Slow Success in Radio | 2/20/1948 | See Source »

Another lot of graduates will teach eighth grade general science, sixth grade geography, and seventh grade arithmetic come the fall. Low girl on the teaching totem pole reported that she would teach "things" to fourth graders in Pennsylvania...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Job Lines Queue Outside School, Office; Altar Trails Behind | 7/22/1947 | See Source »

Besides witches, whirligigs and a nine-foot Totem of Religion made out of three old railroad ties, the show included some 125 paintings, photographs and wall splotches by Surrealists and fellow travelers of 19 nations, including the top ones: Max Ernst, Hans Arp, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miro, Man Ray. Many admirers of early Surrealism (such as Communist Louis Aragon) felt that the daft old horse had lost its kick. Notably absent: Giorgio de Chirico, now a noisy detractor of the movement, and Salvador Dali, unfrocked by orthodox Surrealists for being too frivolous and too commercial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Remembrance of Things Past | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

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