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Word: yet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defensive barrier, and swept government positions aside like puny earthworks in a raging tide. The Communists moved in with impressive speed. In four days they took Nanking, cut off Shanghai, and captured half a dozen strategic Nationalist cities. They were driving hard for the rest of free China not yet engulfed in the Red flood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Swift Disaster | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

Could he do it? Twenty-three years of tradition rested on his puny bat. Twenty-three runs had yet to be scored, and inexorably the cardinal sun was fleeing from the skies. Littlefellow swung and hit a towering fly ball. Surely this was an out. Here, at last, was the end of the amazing Crimson winning skein. But no, for somehow fate was riding out here today in the ruby sun. The Lampoon infield lost the ball in the miniaceous sun and while they were looking for it twenty-three CRIMSON runs scampered home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Upsets Odds Pulberizes Runcible Poon 23-2 Under Tepid Morbiuezza Sun | 4/30/1949 | See Source »

...Harvard and MIT worked with machines and in tanks. This could be an indicator that the BU men will have an edge on their opposition in physical condition. No other knowledge about the BU freshman crew's talent, or lack of it, is available since it hasn't raced yet...

Author: By Rudolph Kass, | Title: MIT Freshman Crew Out To Turn the Tables Today | 4/30/1949 | See Source »

...Houses successfully elected their representatives to the Student Council yesterday, while Dudley has yet to finish its balloting, and Winthrop, caught in the toils of a spirited five-man race, bogged down in a disputed vote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Revote Called For Winthrop Council Seat | 4/29/1949 | See Source »

...Yet "they" eat an awful lot, it was agreed. Their favorite types of food are meat, which they can't get enough of, fruit and fruit juice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Some Freshmen Slobs, Others Real Gentlemen According to Union Gals | 4/29/1949 | See Source »

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