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Word: bidding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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While not exactly ominous, the narrator's voice has an authoritarian quality that commands attention, just as Gabriel's trumpet will one day bid us drop whatever we are doing and listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 3, 1941 | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

...Bid for Happiness, by Therese Lewis and Lota Kriendler, for Helen Hayes. A cleverly strung idyl of parting and reconciliation, just what was in the tea leaves for Actress Hayes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Best Plays | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

Orme Wilson, in the fourth seeded spot, also reached the semi-finals yesterday as he snuffed out a gallant bid for an upset by Barney Straus. Wilson, this year's tennis captain, won the three set contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jenkins, Hyde Reach Tennis Semi-Finals | 10/23/1941 | See Source »

...giddy multitude who have rushed for the Harvard bandwagon since the Crimson celebrated Dick Harlow's birthday a day ahead of time by dashing the hopes of Dartmouth. The Indians, according to reports emenating from Hanover, were just getting in the proper frame of mind to receive a Bowl bid...

Author: By John C. Bullard, | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 10/21/1941 | See Source »

...only other player to reach the quarters was Hugh Hyde, who subdued a gallant bid for an upset yesterday by Norm Neagle. Hyde had difficulty winning the first set 8-6 and looked beaten as he lost the second 6-3, but bounced back in the nick of time to save the last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Net Tournament Starts Quarter-Final Round | 10/21/1941 | See Source »

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