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Word: beers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is the fastest time that has ever beer recorded in the Heptagonal championship and is more than 42 seconds better than Don Burnham's winning time last year...

Author: By Kenneth S. Lynn, | Title: Underdog Eli Harriers Win Heps As Crimson is Second | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

...unlawful within such reasonable distance of any military camp, station, fort, post, yard, base, cantonment, training or mobilization place as the Secretary of War shall determine . . . for any person, corporation, partnership, or association to sell, supply, give or have in his or its possession any alcoholic liquors, including beer, ale, or wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DRINKS: Lee's Amendment | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

Conductor Stock loved Chicago. His mission, in which he largely succeeded, was to foster in Midwesterners the belief that symphonic music could be as American as Milwaukee beer, as free of foreign snobbery as Michigan Avenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Death of a Believer | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

...Inglewood golfers who still venture out 14 miles from Seattle for a game see grease-stained workers and a few sailors playing table tennis, the slot machines, drinking beer and inexpensive Scotch at the club's bar, playing poker and bridge in the lounge, reading before the great fireplaces or rambunctiously roughhousing in the corridors on the second floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men of Vision | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

...song was written by Walt Disney's Tunesmith Oliver Wallace for a picture originally entitled Donald Duck in Nutzi-land, skyrocketed so fast that Disney decided to change the title of the picture to that of the song. Also rocketing to fame on the song's beer-barrel phrases was a hitherto obscure drummer named Lindley Armstrong ("Spike") Jones. Jones, whose band, The City Slickers, first recorded Der Fuehrer's Face, found himself suddenly thrust up among the top U.S. bandleaders. Until then "Spike" had been modestly playing what he calls "society music" (jazzed up Chopin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: War Songs | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

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