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Word: tourneys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frozen countryside, a bonfire crackled and popped. The celebrating went on until 3 a.m. At Portland, two counties away, the townspeople snake-danced around another bonfire. It was the same way at Crawfordsville and Jasper. All Indiana seemed to be aglow. Indiana's 37th annual high-school basketball tourney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hoosier Hoopla | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...Arsenal Tech (student body: 4,578)-were entered. The grown-ups took it more seriously than the kids. Farmers stopped working. Storekeepers closed up shop and went gallivanting off to watch their local heroes perform. Indiana's excitement was matched in Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota, where other state tourneys are in progress. In the Midwest last week it was easy to prove that basketball, the poor boy's game, plays to larger crowds than any other U.S. sport (1,241,594 people paid to see last year's tourney in Indiana alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hoosier Hoopla | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...Vera, Winthrop's super-swordsman, clinched his third House fencing title yesterday by defeating Derek O'Donoghue of Kirkland in the epee finals. Vera, who took the foil and saber awards earlier this week, gave the Puritans first place in the tourney...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vera Slashes Way to Third Fencing Crown | 3/18/1948 | See Source »

...Boston teams is the winner of the United Settlement Houses of Greater Boston basketball tourney, while the other is an all-star team, coached by Varsity basketball player Gunther Rosinus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH, Eli Sponsor Kids' Court Tilts | 3/16/1948 | See Source »

Other colleges included in the tourney are: Army, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Franklin and Marshall, Lehigh, Navy, Pennsylvania, Penn State, Princeton, Syracuse, Virginia, and Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers Reach Semis at Lehigh | 3/13/1948 | See Source »

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