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Word: beaute (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beaut. In Goulburn, New South Wales, Contestant Frederick Newling outglamored eleven girls, managed to reach the finals of a "lovely legs" contest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 5, 1948 | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...boss that he was spending some of his working time at race tracks. Once, in his fury against bookmakers, he asked children to tattle to him when their fathers gambled. He had the candor to admit his shortcomings: "When I make a mistake, it's a beaut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Little Flower | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

Mickey Owen is one of baseball's better catchers, but when he makes an error it is a beaut. The third strike he dropped at Ebbets Field in 1941 cost Brooklyn a World Series game. Last week Mickey decided that joining the Mexican League was his big error for 1946. He recrossed the Rio Grande so suddenly that his wife left most of her clothes behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Return of the Prodigal | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

Then coming home from the excursion the beaut of the day was pulled. As the bus started over the Lars Andersen Bridge an alarmed and Regulation-ridden Curly Drexler shouted for all to attach a line and buoy to their wallets...

Author: By W. M. Cousins jr. and T. X. Cronin, S | Title: The Lucky Bag | 9/8/1944 | See Source »

...beaut of the week was the new command given by Jim Dever at P. T. as he attempted to revise the Landing Force Manual. To get his men at the proper interval, "One Cadence" Jim gave the command, "At extended intervals--Extend." Some day now we'll hear, "Column Right--Coll...

Author: By W. M. Cousins and T.x. Cronin, S | Title: The Lucky Bag | 5/2/1944 | See Source »

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