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Word: williamstown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Williams will provide the competition for the freshman tennis team his afternoon in the sequestered Berkshire resort of Williamstown. Blacker, Aldrich, Murphy, Thompson, Tangen and an undermined sixth man will play singles for the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '52 Tennis Tilt Today | 5/14/1949 | See Source »

...Porters as "great, devoted friends." They live on the 41st floor of Manhattan's Waldorf Towers, and from time to time share the mirrored elegance of his California summer place in Brentwood (complete with a swimming pool that lights up at night), or her luxurious house in Williamstown, Mass. Servants are kept the year round at both places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Professional Amateur | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

During the first two chukkers, the Crimson seemed to be on the way to repeating last October's episode in which it trounced the men from Williamstown by a decisive 6-1 score. During the half, Williams came to life and in the third and fourth chukkers outscored the Crimson 6-2 to take the lead and the game from Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Williams Tops Crimson, 12-11 In Polo Game | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

Paul Whiteman, 57, "King of Jazz" of the '20s, suffered superficial injuries and a $5 fine for careless driving when he smashed his car against a telephone pole near Williamstown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Coming & Going | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...Northwestern University alone wanted $167 million; Columbia needed $100 million. Harvard thought it could make do with $90 million. To refurbish the Mark Hopkins log at Williams (at a cost of $2,500,000), President James Phinney Baxter III spent 24 days in one recent month chasing dollars outside Williamstown. (He felt, he said, like an "itinerant mendicant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Little Givers | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

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