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Word: allens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tall Man. To find his man, Professor Anderson worked by a patient process of elimination. The late Allen Johnson, editor of the Dictionary of American Biography, had decided on internal evidence that the diarist must have been 1) a New Englander, 2) a former Whig, 3) a Republican in 1860-61, 4) a Senator. Anderson eventually decided that Johnson might be wrong on any or all counts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Professor as Sleuth | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...years, NBC had never seen anything like it. First Amos 'n' Andy and Jack Benny went over to rival CBS. Then Fred Allen said flatly that he was through with radio after next June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Flight of the Comedians | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...kinds, including comedy." Meanwhile, NBC is playing musical chairs with its disordered Sunday night schedule. Horace Heidt and his orchestra will be moved from 10:30 p.m. to Jack Benny's 7 p.m. slot; two new comics, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, will replace Heidt. Fred Allen switches from 8:30 to 8 p.m. But that still leaves holes to be plugged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Flight of the Comedians | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...Anderson's third line that was stymied for a full minute at mid-ice while three clever BC skaters froze the puck completely to kill a penalty, and it was the Bill Allen-Al Key second defense that formed the weakest unit...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: BC Tops Hockey Team, 9-4 | 12/16/1948 | See Source »

...Worcester and Thayer Hall; Gim Pon Fong of Newton; Edmond Joseph Gong of Miami, Florida, and Thayer Hall; Roger Browne Hunt of North Bennington, Vermont, and Stoughton Hall; Lansing Lamont of New York City and Stoughton Hall; John Gardner Morey II of Terre Haute, Indiana, and Mower Hall, and Allen Thompson of Matthews Hall and Larchmont...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Vote Names Eight for Smoker | 12/16/1948 | See Source »

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