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Word: beaters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fans know, is a dizzy, alluringly dumb blonde. Cy Howard, her CBS creator and co-author of the screenplay, has seen to it that in her first screen appearance, Irma (Marie Wilson) is just as her fans would have her. She keeps the butter in the oven, the egg beater under a sofa cushion; she short-circuits the plans of her boy friend (John Lund) and her roommate (Diana Lynn), and in general does everything in the least rational way possible. None of this is very funny and much of it is downright silly. But since almost all of Irma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Bench & Bar. In Dallas, Justice of the Peace William E. Richburg sentenced Wife-Beater Grady Rogers to attend church with his wife for four Sundays. In San Francisco, after Stanley John Ostram had been arrested for doing 80 on the Bay Bridge, Judge Matthew Brady suspended his license, ordered him to drive across at 45 once each month for a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 15, 1949 | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...largest flotilla of shells ever to compete in one regatta-32 in all-lined up on Lake Onondaga, N.Y. for the 2,000-meter Eastern sprint championships for varsity, junior varsity and freshmen. With the traditional coach's gloom, Tom Bolles said: "In a short race, some egg beater might win." But when the six varsity finalists (Pennsylvania, Navy, Cornell, Yale, Princeton and Harvard) got off the mark, it was clear that no egg beater was going to steal the race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Unless He's Six-Feet-Four . . . | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

House basketball came to a pre-exam end with three games yesterday, Lowell beating Kirkland 30 to 28, Dunster beater Eliot 41 to 33, and Adams edging Leverett 42 to 41, while hockey opened a pre-exam series with Winthrop downing Lowell...

Author: By John R.W. Smail, | Title: Lowell Downs Deacon Five; Dunster Wins | 1/14/1949 | See Source »

This year neither team is any world-beater and the two lie together in the E.L.L. basement. But Yale still has Lavelli, and Lavelli has just about every scoring record in sight, and 21-points-a-game average...

Author: By Ronald M. Foster jr., | Title: Lavelli-Led Bulldog Quintet Invades Arena Floor Tonight | 3/6/1948 | See Source »

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