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Word: alling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the old row broke out anew. With the annual elections still more than a month away, 605 out of 788 sophomores signed a petition declaring that they would join no club at all unless bids were extended to every student seeking election. It was true, said the sophomores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Come One, Come All | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

In four years of hammer-&-tongs competition for players and grandstand customers, the old, established National Football League and the brash new All-America Football Conference had almost succeeded in beating each other unconscious. To outside pleas for a merger, each side replied through gritted teeth that the other'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: It's Wonderful | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

After a fourth season of sagging attendance and mounting deficits in both leagues, National League club owners deputized thick-set League Commissioner Bert Bell to deal secretly with Manhattan Attorney J. Arthur Friedlund, the chosen negotiator of the All-America Conference. In two days & nights of almost continuous bargaining in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: It's Wonderful | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Under the new setup there will be one 13-team organization, the National-American Football League, with Bell as commissioner. All ten of the former National League teams will be in the new league. Of the All-America's seven teams, three-the Cleveland Browns, the Baltimore Colts and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: It's Wonderful | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

In Cleveland this week the two top teams of the All-America Conference met for the league's last game. On a muddy, slippery field the Cleveland Browns defeated the San Francisco 49ers, 21 to 7, to win the league championship for the fourth year in a row.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: It's Wonderful | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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