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Word: wafts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard Band, whose sterling performances have been helping Crimson rooters waft their sorrows all fall, will come up another winner this weekend with a new, and "unusually good" Princeton medley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Finnegan Writes New Princeton Medley for Halftime on Saturday | 11/3/1949 | See Source »

...research rockets to probe the thin upper atmosphere, they generally kiss their instruments goodbye. Few scientific gadgets survive the impact when the spent rocket hits the earth at thousands-of-miles-per-hour speed. Ordinary parachutes are no help because they are generally torn to shreds before they can waft the instruments to earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Back to Earth | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

Apathy took a back seat this week as no breeze proved strong enough to waft the well-worn felt of Stu Bottle '50 into the Student Council ring. The somnambulent prexy of the Student Apathy League, aroused from his daily stint on an Eliot House settee, muttered a barely audible "no" when told of his nomination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bottle Can't Be Bothered . . . | 4/17/1948 | See Source »

...voyage to Tahiti, Heyerdahl estimates, will take about 140 days. The Peru current will carry the balsa northward up the coast. Then the east wind and the "south equatorial current" will waft it across the Pacific. For entertainment while they drift, the Norwegians are taking along a guitar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Westward Voyage | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

Charles River breezes will waft the Yacht Club on its way this Sunday in the first of a series of nine regating which will pit the Club against 32 colleges and universities from throughout the nation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Race on Charles Sunday to Open Yachting Season | 4/11/1947 | See Source »

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