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Word: betweeners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the promising candidates for this year's All-America is Bill Bofenkamp, "Rooter king" at Minnesota. Like most of his confreres, Bofenkamp is small and wiry (tall cheerleaders went out of style when acrobatics came in), spends two afternoons a week rehearsing with his assistants, has a repertory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: All-America | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

By the fourth quarter the Redskins got going, scored a touchdown and kicked the extra point. Then, with only 45 seconds to play, the score 9-to-7 and the ball on the 16-yard line, Coach Ray Flaherty, realizing that a field goal was the Redskins' only hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Giants v. Redskins | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

The play does all it can to cooperate. A piece of monstrous twaddle, so old-fashioned as to be almost refreshing, it concerns three generations of a hot-blooded Boer family who live somewhere on the veldt. The husbands systematically bully the wives, and the wives systematically bump off the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Key Largo tells of King McCloud (well played by Muni), who deserts the Spanish Loyalists when he sees their cause "betrayed" and doomed, and his own patrol about to be annihilated. To him this is riot cowardice, but the common sense of disillusionment; to his companions it still seems better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Nobody had any copyright on the idea, and Martin Block went to Manhattan's WNEW with it, at $20 a week. Along came the Hauptmann trial, and Block's big chance. His assignment was to fill in between bulletins from the courtroom. He bought a couple of records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Pitchman's Progress | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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