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Word: arounders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next night the Veep spoke to some 2,500 bigwig Democrats at a fund-raising dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria. (Estimated net take for the Democratic National Committee: $300,000.) On the enchanted evening when the honeymooners got around to seeing South Pacific, they literally stopped the show. Entering the theater a few minutes late, they got a rousing ovation from both cast and audience. The next day they were off to a home-cooked dinner in their Washington apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Entrances & Exits | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...second half, the Texans clearly outplayed the mighty Irish and boyish, narrow-eyed Kyle Rote ran his day's performance to spectacular totals: he gained 115 yards through the line and around the ends, pitched ten passes for 146 yards, scored three touchdowns. After his third score it took all of Notre Dame's All-America power to grind out one more Irish touchdown and go ahead, 27-20. Even then, in the last minutes of the game, Coach Matty Bell's men began to roll downfield again in a 67-yd. drive that was halted only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Best Team We've Met | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...photo of the mysterious shoes, wondered whether the owners had perished in the S.S. Noronic's ill-fated voyage from Detroit to Toronto (TIME, Sept. 26). But by nightfall the Free Press picture had produced the footwear's flesh & blood owner. His explanation: he had not gotten around to collecting the shoes. His name: William J. Scripps, a director and son of the owner of the rival afternoon Detroit News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: If the Shoe Fits | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Fitting Reason. In Detroit, Willis Walton, stopped by an alert store owner, explained how he happened to have eight pairs of pants wrapped around his waist under his coat: "I needed a pair . . . and wanted to be sure to get the right size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Author Clare Barnes Jr., art director for the big Manhattan advertising agency of Benton & Bowles, got his idea while looking through a batch of animal photographs for an ad campaign last summer. In his search he was repeatedly reminded of folks around the office. Once he got the Zoo idea, he looked at thousands of zoological portraits before he tackled Doubleday with a choice lot. Enthusiastic but careful, the publisher tried it out in a real white-collar city, insurance capital Hartford, Conn., where Zoo went like animal crackers during a kindergarten recess. Published on July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Beast In Us | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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