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Word: basketfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buckley who had his eye on the basket from start to finish handed his team its lead with two quick field goals before most of the spectators had taken their seats. From then on, Harvard monopolized possession of the ball until the score stood 17 to 5 at the end of the half...

Author: By A.edward Rowse, | Title: FIVE POUNCES ON WESLEYAN | 12/14/1940 | See Source »

...Freshman game against Tufts, a promising Crimson rally was nipped in the last minute with a long, looping basket by Everett Kimball...

Author: By A.edward Rowse, | Title: FIVE POUNCES ON WESLEYAN | 12/14/1940 | See Source »

...Romane will start at forward with Simpson: Ed Rothschild will be in at center; and Ed Buckley and Bud Reagan will open at the guards Romane and Buckley have already had then eyes on the basket in practice with Romane a close third as a scoring threat Rothschild and Simpson are strong on floor work...

Author: By John C. Robbins, | Title: Varsity Hoopsters Rely on Teamwork Tonight As Season Opens Against Novice M.I.T. Squad | 12/6/1940 | See Source »

...even "one teeny white lie" from, slipping into her program, she once spent an entire Sunday touring picnic grounds to discover how picnickers enjoyed a soft drink she was plugging, advised her listeners next day that she hadn't discovered a bottle of the stuff in any lunch basket she had examined. To offset such commercial gaucheries, Miss McBride made a point of eating products while discussing them on the air on the theory that she could better describe their goodness while actually going to work on them. This did not help her to reduce. Sponsored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Goo | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

Strollers in Cannes spotted jaunty, whistling Maurice Chevalier cycling off to his greengrocer's, a market basket bouncing on the handle bars. Similarly straitened by gasoline famine, Cora Lapercerie, once the lissome toast of gaslit Montmartre, now circa 250 lb., rode over the cobbles in a small cart drawn by a straining Shetland pony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 4, 1940 | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

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