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Word: billing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cardella, who loomed from the Cornell fray as a bright light on the bucking, spinning spot of the offense, and Jim Fearon, Russell's understudy at center, are at present in the infirmary with colds. Sensational Bill Coleman and Sophomore Don Lawry were absent in favor of scholastic pursuits, make-up exams et al. And Don Daughters and Captain Bob Green are sporting the latest model in football facials...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: CHIEF BOSTON OUT OF ARMY FRACAS WITH LEG INJURY | 10/11/1938 | See Source »

With the heavyweight ranks considerably weakened by the graduation of Bill Glendinning, mighty unlimited class grappler, and Captain Johnnie Harkness, national 175-1b. champion, the matmen face one of the hardest years on record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIFTEEN TURN OUT FOR WRESTLING PRACTICE | 10/11/1938 | See Source »

...Smith took a long time to make up his mind whether he was proud or ashamed of the fact that, as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, he brought the second AAA to the Senate floor this year. In his recent campaign he sometimes blamed the bill on the New Deal, sometimes claimed credit for it. Last week, with cotton prices tumbling under a bumper August carryover of 13,400,000 bales and no increased AAA relief in sight, Cotton Ed set his weather-vane for good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Ache, Agony, Anguish | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

Whether there was an individual hero of the Cubs' sensational pennant victory (they won 21 of their last 25 games), no two fans could agree. Some thought it was 39-year-old Charlie Root, who pitched the pennant-clinching game against the Cardinals. Others hailed big Bill Lee, winner of 22 games this season, who pitched on four successive days last week; Dizzy Dean who, even with his sore arm, beat the Pirates in the first game of their crucial series just before the final series in St. Louis; Manager Gabby Hartnett who, knowing Dizzy Dean's love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pennant Race | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...more by way of annual subsidy to meet foreign competition. New Dollar Lines president is Joseph R. Sheehan, who resigns as the Commission's executive director. Xew Dollar Lines chairman (at a maximum salary of $25,000) is Senator William Gibbs McAdoo-who introduced the first shipping bill in Congress in 1914. Ever since that old Democratic wheelhorse lost the Senatorial renomination in California in August, it has been supposed that the New Deal would find him a secure berth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Barnacle Bill | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

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