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Word: arounders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...variation three (lower left) he fakes to both the right half and the fullback, continues veering back and to the left and finally whirls-around to throw a pass. The last two plays everybody should remember. Quarterback Clayton faked again to both backs, clapped the ball on his hip and galloped around end on a bootleg play, provided the defensive halfbacks didn't rush...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Lesson In Football | 10/25/1949 | See Source »

...nutty British owner, 49-year-old Mrs. Frances Trollope. They were selling her bricks at three times the market price, laying "gas pipes" that conducted nothing but a steady flow of hot air. So no one was surprised when one fine day "the old Trollope" gathered her bankrupt skirts around her "robust and masculine" limbs and fled back to England-one of the first, but not, alas, one of the last Britishers to invade the U.S. market without first carefully studying its price indexes and consumer needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Feathers from the Eagle's Tail | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

There have been between seven and eight barbers since 1945. Two who left to go to war in 1941 returned four years later and resumed their posts. When a man comes to work for La Flamme's, he usually stays around a while. Of the present employees, Lombardi and Capolupo have been there 30 and 29 years respectively; the others have worked ten, ten, nine, nine, and three years. La Flamme's, in a way, grows on them...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...years and in at least two cases four generations of a family have taken their business to La Flamme's. It is this informal, one-big-happy-family atmosphere which brings people back and which prompts old grads to revisit La Flamme's whenever they happen to be around Boston...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...more difficult process for the birds comes up when the apparatus is set so that a delay between two pecks is necessary for a meal pay-off. He eventually gets wise to this when he discovers that turning around between the first and second peck, or walking across the eage and back, buys him a free meal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mem Hall Gambling Den Is for the Birds | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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