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Word: wigwams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last February the hefty Nevadan armed himself for the next foray with a huge tomahawk: a Senate Resolution empowering him to investigate any of the 3,374 presidential executive orders issued since March 4, 1933. With this power tucked in his belt, Pat McCarran sat quietly in the wigwam of his Senate Judiciary Committee, biding his time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scalping | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

Camp Thomas has beaten Yale already, and is now after Cantab meat. Other scalps on their wigwam include M. I. T. and the Boston Coast Guard. None of them have even been close, and the servicemen ran away from Yale, staying ahead for the last 35 minutes of the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAMP THOMAS OPPOSES HOOPSTERS TOMORROW | 12/10/1943 | See Source »

Buddy Gremp, another fugitive from Casey Stengel's Allston wigwam, is the Amherst first baseman, and Mickey Connelly, one of Naumetz's gridiron teammates at B. C., plays second. Pesky, of course, will be at short...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Crimson Nine Faces Pesky, Others Here In Battle With Amherst Trainees Friday | 4/28/1943 | See Source »

Since Princeton upset the Big Green in its opening contest, the Hanover quintet has been little short of terrific. Five straight scalps have entered the New Hampshire wigwam, the Crimson's among them, and Dartmouth is anxious to move to its sixth successive League title...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Hungry Indians Meet Unpredictable Crimson | 2/17/1943 | See Source »

...Leagut will conclude its 39th season with the seventh playoff in its history. During the skirmishing of the past few days, a towering Dartmouth Indian made off with a half a claim to the 1942 title but recent developments also indicate that he may have to emerge from his wigwam once more this year in an attempt to wrest the remaining 50 per cent from a somewhat stubborn Princeton Tiger. If the battle materializes, it will make Frank Buck's tales listen like a bedtime story...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIGERS, INDIANS MAY MEEET IN BASKETBALL LEAGUE PLAYOFF | 3/10/1942 | See Source »

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