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Word: arounders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Harper still likes the scrappy, alert game of play maker and team captain Bill Hickey. "Murphy is probably the best all around player, a good shot and good defensive man, but you have to remember he's had the most experience and the other boys may still catch up with him," Harper said. Murphy played with a state high school championship team in Iowa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Five Meets Tabor Academy in Sixth Contest | 1/18/1949 | See Source »

...into the nozzle, puts the other end into a wash basin faucet (it won't work on a Pullman car, not enough pressure). When the water is turned on, a jet of mixed water and toothpaste cleans the teeth. One shot of toothpaste is enough to last all around the mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Brushless Toothbrush | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...those who love opera for what it is, not what someone else thinks it should be." There was no immediate response from Met Critic No. 1 Billy Rose. George Sloan's shafts had been flung just 30 hours after Billy (see PEOPLE) had flown off on a trip around the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Answers from the Met | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...hard enough in Chicago to blow any man down, and from a somewhat unexpected quarter. Most fellow musicians had kept their opinions to themselves when Soprano Kirsten Flagstad hit the comeback trail, two years ago, after merely accepting life in occupied Norway (TIME, Dec. 27). But when word got around that Furtwangler would be coming too, they set up an angry cry that could be heard all the way to Vienna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chill Wind in Chicago | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

Thousands of British children crowded around TV sets at week's end to hear Muffin the Mule make his New Year resolution. As curly-haired Mistress-of-Ceremonies Annette Mills appeared at her piano and ran through the opening bars of We Want Muffin, watching children squirmed with anticipation. Then Muffin, a black & white puppet with a straggly mane and a shabby velvet saddle, came clattering across the piano. As always, he blundered about, got his foot tangled in Annette's teacup, finally collapsed in a dither of excitement. As always, the TV audience shrieked with pleasure. Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Stars on Strings | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

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