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Word: upping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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A crowd of girl flyers from Smith waited in a freezing rain at Northampton airport yesterday, but their Harvard dales-the-air never showed up.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Northampton Flyers Wait in Rain in Vain | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

At first it seemed simply to be a few isolated cases of thoughtlessness by real University maintenance men. But a brief investigation has turned up such a staggering weight of evidence that we can no longer strain coincidence for an explanation.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Black Hand | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Let us took at the facts. One month age, a "workman" started cutting the grass in the Eliot House courtyard at 8:15 a.m. setting up such a cacophony with his electric mower that further sleep was impossible. One week later at the very same hour, he was back with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Black Hand | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

In the meantime, the evidence has poured in from the rest of the College, innumerable instances of little men coming in through the fire door and students who have waked up to find their shades taken down whilst they slept and later replaced in an equally mysterious manner. Once a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Black Hand | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Who known where they will strike next? Even now, privacy in the College rooms is an outworn concept. Eventually when you come home, the little men won't leave. They will stay there 4 hours a day, sleep in your beds and use up your toothpaste. Then the revolution will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Black Hand | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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