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Word: bloodedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quivering Nostrils. Lafcadio Hearn was a sight to see, and he knew it. One eye was blind and covered with a milky film; the other was "myopic and protruding, so that it looked like the single eye of an octopus." A short (5 ft. 3), slight man with a scraggly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Passionate Pilgrim | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

In South Carolina, it is unpardonable for a red-blooded citizen to be neutral on Big Thursday. On that momentous day, by decree of state law and with the State Fair as a backdrop, Clemson College (enrollment 3,200) fights it out on the football field with the University of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Thursday | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Testing Haul. This book, the second of a projected panel of four about the West, takes up where The Big Sky left off. Basically it is the familiar story of a wagon train moving west from Missouri to Oregon, but with differences that the jaded reader of historical fiction will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On to Oregon | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

By late summer, at least three blue-blooded young horses were running nose-and-nose for the two-year-old championship. The best finisher was chunky, bay Hill Prince, beaten only once-and that time by what his rider, Jockey Eddie Arcaro, confessed was "a damn bad ride." At Saratoga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Speed & Foresight | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

The comic book, Gang Busters, usually a hectic free-for-all of ricocheting bullets, cold-blooded criminals and implacable law enforcers, played host last week to a mild-mannered youth. In the midst of its bimonthly gallery of firebugs, homicidal maniacs, fight fixers, railroad wreckers, waterfront thugs and redblooded, straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Take It from Buzzy | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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