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Word: basketfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elizabeth, realized that the big ship was still at her pier when he cast his last vote. He telephoned the Cunard Line, made a flying trip to his hotel, packed, hustled to the dock. In the scramble he forgot his passport. His secretary got it to him, in a basket pulled up on a line, just as the ship was moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: By Acclamation | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

Three times in one practice session last week, deadeye Andy Prillip, one of Illinois' famed Whiz Kids, dribbled down the floor and then passed up an easy shot at the basket. Instead he tossed the ball to Whiz Kid Jack Smiley. Phillip explained, with a grin, "Smiley's wife and little boy are up in the balcony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Whiz Kids, Grown Up | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

Captain John Rockwell kept the strings swinging for 29 points and the high score of the night while six foot four inch Pat Dailey, the Texas tip-in man, accounted for the second highest total with 12 points from under the basket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frosh Hoopsters Top Squantum Five, 83-13 | 12/20/1946 | See Source »

Coach Bill Barclay's quintet moved out to a swift 15 to 2 lead in the first seven minutes, showing its best performance of the game, but the Terriers moved back into contention, and the teams matched basket for basket the rest of the way. Harvard led 28 to 16 at the half, and early in the final twenty minutes B.U. moved to within seven points of the Crimson, but two quick dueces pushed the Barclay five into another safe lead which it maintained thereafter...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Varsity Five Defeats Overrated B.U. 55-45, as Hauptfuhrer Tops Scorers | 12/20/1946 | See Source »

Guard Steve Davis held George Gaudrault, the Terrier ace, to a single basket in the first half, but Gaudrault had a torrid second period to lead the visitors with 15 points. For the Crimson, Hauptfuhrer turned in a polished performance at the pivot in the first half when he garnered 12 points, but had trouble in the final twenty minutes with B.U.'s Harry Botsford, an elongated center Coach Russ Peterson sent in to guard the Crimson pivot...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Varsity Five Defeats Overrated B.U. 55-45, as Hauptfuhrer Tops Scorers | 12/20/1946 | See Source »

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