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Word: waterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tonight's touch-off with Rutgers puts the squad to the toughest test of the season excepting the Yale meet, and the Scarlet outfit should prove as rough a customer in the water as they did this fall on the gridiron...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimmers Battle Rutgers, Penn in Weekend Jaunts | 3/14/1947 | See Source »

...century, and highly organized cram courses flourished. By 1936 Wolff's, Parker-Cramer, and the establishment of E. Gordon Parker '96 had achieved leadership in their field and were busily stuffing College mailboxes with their literature. "Tute school" advertising stressed respectability and the scientific approach. A high-water mark of a sort was reached by Wolff's in a display ad that pictured a cap and gowned senior under the headline, "Diploma by Harvard--Tutoring by Wolff...

Author: By Jay K. Weiss, | Title: Bitter Commercial Tutoring School Battle Culminated In Establishment of Original Bureau of Supervisors | 3/14/1947 | See Source »

Medical Examiner William J. Brickley of the city police said that the condition of the remains indicated 'long immersion" in the water. the fatal bullet passed completely through the body, piercing the heart and nicking two ribs, and therefore is unavailable for ballistics analysis. No gun has been yet discovered, Brickley added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Body of Eugene Harmon '50 Found In Mystic River; Shot Caused Death | 3/14/1947 | See Source »

...worst slums in New England and asks what they are doing there. In 1940, the Housing Authority found that one third of Boston's dwellings had no heat but stoves. The survey classed one fifth of the homes substandard and reported that half of these had no running water, private baths, or toilets. "And this condition," Lyons adds, "had changed only by further deterioration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grandeur That Was Boston Lost in Slums, Apathetic Suburbs, Brahmin Inertia as Leaders Wrangle Over Bribes in City Hall | 3/14/1947 | See Source »

Archibald Davison, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music, views the apparent flowering of musical interest "as the natural culmination of the tradition started here 40 years ago." Professor Davison emphasizes musical participation as much as counter transactions: "The Glee Club, Band, and Pierian Sodality have all reached new high-water marks," he says, "while the Music Club is also experiencing a high-interest cycle. All this leads people to take music courses and from there to move to record buying and the eventual building of private music libraries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 3/12/1947 | See Source »

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