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Word: 39th (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swank Los Angeles Tennis Club setting was a step up from the U.S. pro championship, held last summer in Manhattan, on the miserable Rip's Courts at 39th & Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Budge's Postwar Plan | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

...39th Inf., 9th Division

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Double Trouble | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

...Prince" Mike Romanoff, Prohibition's most famed impostor, now a successful Hollywood restaurateur, was a pseudo-princely visitor in a 39th-floor suite of Manhattan's swank Hotel Pierre. East on an optimistic liquor-buying trip, the Prince discussed a 33-acre hotel he plans to build in Beverly Hills. Speaking of his former attitude toward the press, he remarked: "The morgue is the god of the Fourth Estate; there, sufficient multiplication of error is its verification as fact. The freedom of the press is the same as poetic license; it allows them to say anything. ... I assure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 3, 1944 | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

...full week. To Eleanor Roosevelt, winging down the coast of Brazil (see p. 19), he sent a message on their 39th wedding anniversary. Day before, Second Son Elliott had been sued for divorce by Wife Ruth Googins, mother of three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President's Week, Mar. 27, 1944 | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

Writing books on boxing is a habit with Nat Fleischer. The life story of Terry McGovern, who ruled the bantam and featherweight classes in 1899 and 1900 respectively, is his 39th. His previous 38 have sold more than 1,000,000 copies, How to Box and Training for Boxers together sold 200,000 copies. Nat Fleischer's All-Time Ring Record Book is a model of accuracy and completeness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boxing Buff | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

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