Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Probably the most unusual request we ever received-and a proof of TIME'S toughness-came from a group of Trinity preparatory school boys in New York City. They didn't want to reprint anything; they wanted 50 copies of TIME for their weekend soccer game. It seems that there was a shin guard shortage in town, and a sporting goods salesman had advised them to substitute magazines for the time being. They tried all shapes & sizes of them and found that TIME was just right for their purpose. They managed to rustle up enough copies for their...
Thus, exclaimed the usually businesslike Associated Press, as its clacking teletype machines began to carry the news around the world, "the fairy-tale drama of Britain's exciting weekend closed...
...Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, The Lost Weekend, Double Indemnity, To Each His Own, A Foreign Affair...
Rivalries followed rapidly, and feelings between the Crimson and Blue got touchier and touchier. Relationships were broken off for three years just before the turn of the century, but the game was too good an excuse for a big weekend, and the classic was reinstated...
...noon yesterday Harvard had stopped looking like Harvard and began to look like any other college on the Big Game weekend. Pretty girls in red dresses appeared in the Yard and the Houses, and bottles replaced notebooks...