Search Details

Word: billing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Bill Healy of the Commuters was the sparkplug of their defense, while Roy Moore, Kirkland captain, was the outstanding Deacon star...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DUDLEY AND KIRKLAND END IN 0-0 DEADLOCK | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

...Bill Kendall, the Australian boy who was well on his way toward making swimming history at Harvard until he decided to leave college in the spring of 1938, is now in his native Australia waiting to join a contingent of airmen bound for the Western front...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Crimson Tank Star, Bill Kendall, to Be Front Line Aviator | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

...profitable, but also because it is almost entirely with the Allies, with whom our sympathies lie. As a Washington wiseacre commented, "For once, the dough and the ideals are on the same side." They certainly seem to make an unbeatable combination. We can only pray that the Neutrality Bill, which seems soon to be passed, will keep the resulting boom from completely wrecking our neutrality. If properly administered, it should be able...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SMOKE SCREEN | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

...pros, with the notable exception of Don Budge); defeating Defending Champion Fred Perry in the final, 8-6, 6-8, 6-1, 20-18; in the movie set setting of the Beverly Hills Tennis Club, at Beverly Hills, Calif. Star attraction of the tournament was greying, still garrulous Bill Tilden, who, in his first appearance on a U. S. tennis court in almost three years, demonstrated that he still has the most formidable strokes of any player in the world but that his 47-year-old legs are not what they used to be. In the semifinals, Fred Perry took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Oct. 30, 1939 | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...this publicity went, it did Mr. Smith Goes to Washington no harm at all. But there was a chance that the picture might get the Senatorial dander up to the danger point. The Neely Block-Booking Bill, now locked up in the House Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee, would prevent big movie producers from compelling exhibitors to book a whole list of pictures in order to get one on the list which they want. Hollywood would much prefer to have the Neely bill stay locked up. Last week irate Senators talked of getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mr. Smith Riles Washington | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Previous | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | Next