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Word: babe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even more inaccurate this year." All of which is most mysterious. We can understand assaults on St. Nicholas, whose ubiquity has cheapened the season's spirit, and on the scrawny puritan that well-fed Thanksgivers are wont to evoke. But why pick on the new year's babe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happy New Year | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...eight-day reading period. It can be felt along the river among the Houses, particuarly between the afternoon hours of one to four, and it pervades the streets, adorned periodically as they are with flapping tags attached to myriad windshield wipers. Yes, Cambridge alone might justify the babe's symbolism, but his traces are found elsewhere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happy New Year | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words of the Week | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

People Unadulterated. In discussing the faiths they live by, barely half of the contributors to This I Believe found it necessary to mention "God" and only ten owned up to having any formal religious belief. Among them: Poet Robert Hillyer, Educator Elizabeth Gray Vining, National League Umpire Ralph ("Babe") Pinelli. (Said Umpire Pinelli: "I believe in my God, my family, my country and baseball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: What They Believe | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

...family lineage than his running ability. Pruett, the type of running ability. Pruett, the type of runner who needs the blocks, has averaged just under five yards a carry; nevertheless, he is known primarily as the son of the St. Louis Brown pitcher who could strike out Babe Ruth. Six-foot-three-inch Frank Smith will start at right end. A substitute for the veteran Harry Benninghoff at the beginning of the season, Smith took over when the latter was injured and has held the post ever since. Currently the number two Eli receiver, Smith is often used...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Molloy, Woodsum Lead Powerful Eli Eleven | 11/22/1952 | See Source »

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