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Word: benches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...become less & less formal, more & more personal and therefore more telling in its influence upon Roosevelt thinking and policy-both domestic and foreign. The other Justice who is also a White House counselor is William Orville Douglas. Subject: SEC, which he once headed and still discreetly nursee from the bench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Men Around the Man | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

...Possible reason: Cardinal Manager Ray Blades, who was supplanted last fortnight by 47-year-old Billy Southworth. In 39 games this season, bench-jittery Blades used 107 pitchers, permitted only six to finish the games they started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Flag Day | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

Richardson the mound for lampy, while W. R. Zwonkas Sisson the Bench. Meanwhile that Pollak with a Bowle knife will Cutler throat of E. P. Zwonkas Jester see the Crimson over all (blood of course...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey occ., | Title: ZIMMERMAN OR SHINE CRIME BATS OUT A HIGHBALL OR TWO | 6/12/1940 | See Source »

...clique of underbrained, overfed dodos. The antics of a desperate adolescent (Laurence Olivier) who gets mixed up with a White Russian girl (Vivien Leigh), inadvertently kills her bigamist husband, appear some how noble. The lifelong efforts of his elder brother (Leslie Banks) to make a career on the British bench appear some how ignoble. Occasionally tense, usually laggard, 21 Days Together will chiefly thrill devotees of the Leigh-Olivier Liebestraum. It is reported to be the picture which first brought the pair together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...tribute to John D. Merrill, "the man who never missed a Harvard crew race or practice at Red Top for 50 years," the Harvard Crew Alumni will erect a memorial bench in honor of Merrill who died six months...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CREW ALUMNI TO ERECT BENCH AT RED TOP TO HONOR MERRILL | 6/9/1940 | See Source »

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