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Word: wolfs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...played on the New York Harvard Club's squash racquets team, won New York's Metropolitan squash racquets championship. Last year, Grant gave up squash racquets for squash tennis, soon became so proficient that experts predicted he would this year take the national championship away from Harry Wolf who has held it for the last seven years. Instead, Grant gave up squash tennis to concentrate on racquets, which he had first played in England where he lived until ten years ago. Three years ago, when Grant was devoting most of his time to squash racquets, he found time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Court Career | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

...came to Harvard after he graduated. He aspired to a scholastic career. All his friends laughed at him Freshman year. They would go shooting out nights in tuxedoes and the boy would stay home. They would wolf highballs at the Ritz-fair and the boy would shut up his books at midnight and have a glass of milk at Hayes-Bickford...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/25/1937 | See Source »

Leboeuf led the way for the Crimson in the foils, winning over Mayer, Williams, and Wolf of the Bruins by the score of 5-4, 5-2, and 5-0 respectively. Davis, with victories over Williams and Thurlow, and Long with victories over Williams and Thurlow, completed the Crimson triumphs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YARDLING BASKETBALL, TRACK TEAMS TRIUMPH | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...vacation and reading period the Hilary Term has begun. Most conversation these days starts with some reference to that evergreen topic, the inclement weather and ends with a sharing of vacation experiences or with some witty comment on the escape of three wolves from the Oxford Zoo. The last wolf was shot today, so sheep once more can graze with peace and the Oxford girls ride their bicycles and stay out after dark...

Author: By Christopher Janus, Former STUDENT Vagabond, and Now AT Wadham college., S | Title: The Oxford Letter | 2/13/1937 | See Source »

Gauguin went back to France, painted like a madman, had a bad time. At one point he took a job as a billposter. He made a first trip to the tropics, to Martinique, but it was a disappointment. Then Vincent van Gogh, a lone wolf like himself, invited him to come and work with him at Aries. Their queer partnership broke up when van Gogh went crazy and cut off his ear with a razor. Meanwhile Gauguin and Mette wrote to each other, in a fairly friendly fashion. He tried to explain to her why he was acting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Bad Wolf | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

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