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Word: bb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Team A: le MacKinney; lt Miller; lg Peabody and Rowe; c Anderson and Page; rg Pfister; rt Gardiner; re Morgan and Forte; bb Goldthwalte; tb Lee and Wilson; fb Johnson; wb O'Donnell and Gifford...

Author: By Dan H. Fenn jr., | Title: "Club" Peabody Injured; Vander Eb is Back on Grid | 9/23/1941 | See Source »

...June 18--Yale at Harvard PITCHING RECORDS Name & College h bb so w l pct. Talcott, Princeton 42 38 27 6 0 1.000 Sexton, Dartmouth 36 14 43 3 0 1.000 Sickles, Cornell 28 14 34 5 1 .833 Waldstein, Harvard 36 26 24 4 2 .667 Beinst'n, P'ns'lv'n'a 46 13 21 2 1 .667 Harrison, Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eastern Intercollegiate League | 6/4/1941 | See Source »

Before closing shop last week, TNEC published its recommendations. With all the ammunition the committee had stored up, a terrific broadside might have been expected. Instead, the committee rolled a rusty BB gun into place, pinged at the nation's economic problems thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Twilight of TNEC | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...Tirza, who bathes in wine. Thereupon Rosita Royce entered suit against the White Way Casino. Indignantly she pointed out that, besides asking her to work too much, the Casino had failed to protect her doves from an unknown bird fancier, who took pot shots at the doves with a BB gun while they were protecting strategic points. At last, she said, she had appealed to Fair Chairman Harvey D. Gibson, who gave her a game warden to protect her fowl. At week's end Rosita had appealed to the American Guild of Variety Artists to settle her troubles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Bird Fancier | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

...suddenly became kindergarten stuff. Along with the arithmetic went the military thinking which produced such piffling ciphers as $279,000,000. Overnight, the pleasant doings in Louisiana became old-fashioned non sense. Against Europe's total war, the U. S. Army looked like a few nice boys with BB guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Billions for Defense | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

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