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Word: bidding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson's final bid to break the B. U. jinx was in the sixth inning. Bob Feloney poked a hard line drive to the Terrier second sacker after Bill Weeks had walked. Crawford Hubbell walked, and then Bill Hamlen laced out a scorching double along the third base foul line scoring Weeks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B. U. Trounces Crimson, 10-6, for Third Win | 8/6/1946 | See Source »

...Aleman is now pondering, that rich pool could be tapped with some 7,250 new wells, aimed at quadrupling production. But that is a six-year, $600,000,000 job, and that is where foreigners come in. To raise some of the money, private companies would be allowed to bid in two-thirds of the new fields, then export most of the production on a royalty basis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Oily Dynamite | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

Oregon's board of education quickly approved the Epler summer school, just as quickly approved Epler's bid to keep Vanport Center College open next fall-as an accredited junior college. Last week Epler had 577 applications for the new term, and more were coming in every mail. And the idea was catching. Just across the way-on the Washington side of the Columbia River-another new college was in the works. Seattle's overcrowded University of Washington was eyeing the Army's abandoned Vancouver Barracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Vanport Idea | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...people express their wish to transform Germany into a federal state." The day after this speech, every newspaper in the French capital blossomed forth with a violent attack on the Soviet, including the organs of the Socialist party and the party of Maurice Thorez and Jacques Duclos. With this bid for German support and apparent jettisoning of the French, party lines were transcended and French Communists stood with all other Frenchmen in their bitter denunciation of the Soviet Union. Previous to the Molotov speech, Harold Laski had, in an article in The Nation, sharply taken issue with the Soviet Foreign...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ursa Major | 7/26/1946 | See Source »

Harvard's bid for victory came in the first after Tom Sullivan flied out to right and the next four batters, Bill Harford, Johnny Fiorentino, Herb Neal, and Charlie Senseney, all singled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Nine Loses to Terriers Again, 16-4 | 7/23/1946 | See Source »

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