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Word: bitted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...horrified. One remarked to Scotland's Helen Holm, one of the quarter finalists, that the Babe was "altogether lacking in refinement." Golfer Holm cut her off: "You're speaking of the finest woman golfer that has ever been seen here." "And what if she does clown a bit?" asked the father of Golf Pro Jimmy Thomson. "That's just her way, and only an old tabby would object...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Babe in Britain | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...halfway mark the two early leaders of the pack, little Dick Metz and big Chick Harbert, went haywire-they could not keep up their sub-par pace. Golfers who still had a chance to win drifted into the clubhouse, bit into sandwiches, tried to wash them down with a glass of milk. Some ate sugar lumps to steady nerves. The tension infected the crowd: the grapevine spread that someone's putter was getting hot, and the crowd drifted from threesome to threesome looking for the player who would fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hard Luck Sammy | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...singers in "The Medium" are actors also, with Marie Powers contributing a particularly fine bit as the spiritualist. The staging-by Menotti, too-is unusual, with an cerie touch in the last act that has to be seen. On both these counts the very thought of the Metropolitan doing the opera is foolish, for the necessity of using old costumes and old settings and that unique operatic brand of acting on the huge Met stage would spoil Menotti's work...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lewis, | Title: The Music Box | 6/19/1947 | See Source »

Meanwhile, cross country and seccer men were finding the going a bit rougher, with the harriers bogging down badly in seventh place at the Heps and trailing Yale in the Big Three meet. The booters wound up on the short and of a 3 to 2 count against the Elis in a game that gradually turned into a mudbath...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burdened But Unbowed, John Harvard Faced Peace Again | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...that brotherhood had been carried too far in the land of liberty when strangers were admitted to bunk with any guest during the night. He deplored the absence of curtains in bedroom windows, and the abundance of flies everywhere. As a bookseller and printer in Philadelphia, he contributed his bit to the future of U.S. civilization by selling contraceptives, which were soon "in great demand among Americans, in spite of the false shame so prevalent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In the Passionless U. S. | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

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