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Word: beatings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doug Pirnic's Freshman track team will meet its Yale counterpart in the Stadium Saturday. The Crimson '51 squad beat Andover here last Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '51 Track Meets Yale | 5/4/1948 | See Source »

...good two score of the guests remarked to Presidential Press Secretary Charles Ross that if Harry Truman carried on his campaign with that kind of effectiveness, "he'll be a hard guy to beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: You Should Have Heard Him | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...defeated in the 1924 G.O.P. primaries for U.S. Congressman but chosen by party chiefs as the nominee after the man who beat him died. He was chosen as minority leader of Congress in 1939; chosen to preside at the G.O.P. National Convention in 1940 (which he enjoyed) and to run Wendell Willkie's presidential campaign (which he did not enjoy). He was elected Speaker of the House on Jan. 3, 1947. If Harry Truman dies in office, he will become President. In 1939, when the New Deal was popular with Washington newsmen, they nevertheless voted him the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: WHO'S WHO IN THE GOP: MARTIN | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...Gallup uses are as old as those used by grain samplers, cotton testers or tea tasters. Gallup's contribution has been to apply those methods commercially to everything and anything in the world. A friend has said of him: "He wishes he had invented the ruler. Since someone beat him to it, Gallup has spent his life thinking up new ways to use it." It is almost true to say that George Gallup was born to be a pollster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: The Black & White Beans | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...Dartmouth had a guy named Scully in their first midfield. He dodged his Crimson counterparts time after time to become the proverbial extra man. "Scully beat us," said Coach Maddux...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Indians' Second Half Attack Downs Lacrosse Team, 14-3 | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

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