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Word: ails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ail-Star Game (Tues. 1:15 p.m., Mutual and CBS-TV). Annual baseball classic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jul. 11, 1949 | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...sleek and streamlined cars that bore little resemblance to the homely soap-box-on-wheels, 149 helmeted youngsters crouched over their steering wheels and rolled earnestly downhill in the eleventh annual Ail-American Soap Box Derby before 65,000 spectators at Akron. Young Donald Strub, 13, rolled the fastest, won a four-year college scholarship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Aug. 23, 1948 | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...even by the jazzophiles. Jimmy had never tried to remind them. He had hit the big time before he was 15, playing the Orpheum circuit, and even a command performance before Britain's King & Queen. Then he got interested in baseball, spent his days playing with the Chicago Ail-Americans and his nights playing piano in the city's brass-spittooned bars, sometimes for drinks, sometimes for money. Gradually, he evolved his rolling bass, and taught what he knew to two young friends. Soon fans were flocking to hear Meade Lux Lewis and Albert Ammons play. But while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: As Long As They Want Me | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Captain Huna Rosenfeld, Bill O'Connor, Bill Leming, and Vince Moriarty, ail on the injured list, watched the annual 3.7 mile race from the sidelines. Whether they will be able to start in this Friday's opening meet against Holy Cross and M.I.T. is still uncertain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cogan Wins Handicap; Mikkola Lauds '51 Men | 10/4/1947 | See Source »

June Allyson found she is the new type of pinup. Editors of 250 college papers, who admire her because she "likes a good book, loves children, and is a good conversationalist," voted her 1947's Most Lovable Movie Actress. Lovable Miss Allyson is now reciprocating by picking the Ail-American College...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Laurel Day | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

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