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Word: bout (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confident man. Behind his self-imposed veil of secrecy, President Roosevelt has grown steadily more buoyant. At times his face is lined and pouched with weariness, but he looked wearier a year ago than now. Today he is like a fighter in the tenth round of a 15-round bout. Plenty of hard punching lies ahead. But he has felt out his opponent now, and is sure he can take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rendezvous with Destiny | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

...sport was introduced, to Sanders Theater last Wednesday night when the hallowed hall was temporarily converted into a boxing ring for a three round exhibition bout featuring Tony Martin, now of the Coast Guard, and Mike Potkonjak, of the Harvard V-12 Unit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sanders Boxing Bout Features Tony Martin | 11/19/1943 | See Source »

...match was the climax of the entertainment presented to the V-12 Unit in its first smoker. Other minor bouts were on the card earlier in the program matching V-12ers against each other in both boxing and wrestling, while a novel note was introduced in the bout between a wrestler and a boxer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sanders Boxing Bout Features Tony Martin | 11/19/1943 | See Source »

Wallace's bout with the Nation's carriers was staged in Dallas, which is Democratic but not New Dealish. There the Vice President was roundly snubbed by top business and civic leaders, roundly welcomed by labor groups, who pinned their insignia on his lapel. In his speech the Vice President sailed into the railroads with old-fashioned muckraking, trust-busting fervor. He swung hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: New Crusade | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...Note: How'bout that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Press | 10/15/1943 | See Source »

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