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Word: welds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...team composed of players from Weld and Grays halls defeated the Thayer basketball team, 23 to 22 yesterday, to win the championship of the Freshman interdormitory basketball league. The game was a play-off after equal records of four wins and one loss by both teams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weld-Grays Team Wins | 3/9/1940 | See Source »

...Weld Hall's basketball team, sparked by Bob Chase '43, upset the league leading Thayer combination yesterday, 22 to 16, to tie for first place in the Yardling interdormitory basketball race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weld Upsets Thayer, 22-16 | 2/27/1940 | See Source »

...night, I remember," reminisced Colonel Apted, "back in them horse-and-buggy days, they took a smart aleck up into 29-30 Weld Hall and tied him up to the ceiling like a picture-by his thumbs. They let his toes just touch the window sill so he could give an occasional little jump to release the pressure. He was jumping pretty fast and howling like hell when we got there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Break It Up, Boys! | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...60th year, his 21st as president of the mine workers, his fifth at the helm of C. I. O. He was an emigrant Welsh miner's brat in Iowa when, this day 50 years ago, 198 men from the coal fields met in Columbus to weld their various feuding unions into one United Mine Workers of America. Behind him and his 2,400 jubilee delegates were men long dead: John Bates, who founded the first U. S. miners' union in 1849, and failed; the thousands of British diggers who flocked over to man U. S. coal mines during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Jubilee | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...Stuart Kirby '43 of Rye, New York, and Weld Hall concocted the supreme publicity stunt of the year, involving the delightful combination of a "Ship-wreck Kelly" act high up on one of the trees in the Yard with a Radcliffe glamor girl waiting below, but all his well laid plans fell through when the girl demurred...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RADCLIFFE BEAUTY THWARTS YARDLING'S PUBLICITY STUNT | 2/2/1940 | See Source »

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