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Word: wente (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rotary traffic around the subway kiosk was attempted with disastrous results. At that time, there were trolleys to cope with, and the experiment permitted two-way traffic on the avenue nearest the Coop. The end result was only more confusion, and the police, city planners, et al, went back to the method of directing traffic with the help of a traffic booth and loudspeakers...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Cambridge Fights to Unsnarl Traffic | 9/30/1949 | See Source »

Sever, built in 1880, was Richardson's first opus after he finished Trinity Church in Boston. It was the first time he really went modern, and marks the inauguration of the "Richardson style," which has since been damned because of the ugly efforts of Richardson's many imitators. Sever, however, is considered a masterpiece. A Wellesley architecture course makes a yearly pilgrimage to the Yard...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster, | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 9/30/1949 | See Source »

Shortly thereafter the Braves lit a small bonfire on the dugout steps and huddled around it warming their digits. Umpire Barlick chose to ignore this. The Braves even went so far as to get two base hits off Newcombe before they relapsed to form and struck out one, two, three...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 9/30/1949 | See Source »

Fifteen hundred more tickets to the Columbia game went on sale at 1 p.m. yesterday and presumably disappeared as fast as World Series ducats, which the Red Sox will start selling at their box office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seniors' Ducats Today | 9/28/1949 | See Source »

...jayvees, using a Columbia-style offense, tested the patched-up varsity defense. Bottenfield replaced Roche as defensive left halfback and Shafer spelled Bob Di Blasio, who wasn't at practice, at right half. After a while Nick Athans and Walsh came on and Lowenstein went in at safety for Healey...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Varsity Sets Defenses for Columbia | 9/28/1949 | See Source »

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