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Word: triangular (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sailing a triangular course, Bus Mossbacher of Dartmouth and Dave Noyes of Harvard finished in a tie in the Star class, while the Big Green's Warner Wilson won in the 14-foot International division. Personally amassing 59 points, to insure the Crimson victory, Lyman Bullard and Johnny Burton overcame strong Coast Guard opposition by six points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON TRIUMPHS IN COAST GUARD REGATTA | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

...attempt to break the Dartmouth cross-country team's undefeated record, the Crimson harriers will journey to Hanover this afternoon for a dual meet on Friday, while the Jayvees visit Tufts. The varsity meet was to have been triangular, with New Hampshire also participating, but the Wildeats could not come because of transportation difficulties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harriers to Meet Unbeaten Indians | 10/22/1942 | See Source »

...southern Slavic peoples were fighting a complex, grim, ruthless and triangular war last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Balkan Red | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

Japanese territory. The enemy was off the field at Hankow down the Yangtze. At signal poles on Chungking's heights, civilians saw an old, familiar signal: yellow triangular lanterns, which told them that the enemy was on the wing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF CHINA: One-Ball Jin Bao | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

That night (as they later learned) the Japanese and U.S. forces passed within 30 miles of each other. Next morning U.S. scouts spotted the Japs in real force: three carriers, with cruisers and destroyers in the usual triangular formations. Wisely the U.S. cruisers and destroyers again stayed with their carriers. Not once during the battle did the U.S. and Jap warships get a shot at each other. Off went the planes, into history's first carrier-v.-carrier combat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: There Were the Japs! | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

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