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Word: brewster (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...national champion Bulldogs boasted fine talent in the 50- and 100-yard free style (two men named Alan Ford and Brewster-Macfadden), but their ability elsewhere was not so deep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strong Eli Swimmers Poor Yale Five Edges | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

...Jayvees, who have now wen 10 of their last 11 games, including a triumph over highly rated Dean Academy, led from the start, and were ahead 24 to 14 at the end of the first half. Mike DeLeo, slick floorman, paced the team with 15 points, while forward Brewster Wolfe had 12. Coach Floyd Stahl used 12 players...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON CAGERS LOSE TO CORNELL 63-43 AT ITHACA; JAYVEES TRIUMPH | 3/4/1943 | See Source »

They are deaf-mutes. To North American Aviation (as to many other plants now employing them) their unique usefulness was as much a surprise as the successful use first made by Brewster Aeronautical of midgets to work in tight places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANPOWER: No Noise | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

...rose red-faced Kansas Republican Clyde Martin Reed: "You are going directly contrary to the law. This is absolutely the worst case of bad faith I have ever seen." Charged potato-minded Maine Republican Ralph O. Brewster: "You have condemned us to 65% of parity . . . we've got to move 15,000,000 bushels of potatoes and you have forbidden us the parity price provided by law." Fast-moving Jimmy Byrnes came back with a rush, explained that he was only doing what the President had told him to do. Snapped the ex-Supreme Court Justice: "If I believed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fight in Foods | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

...delightful. The Fiji native, one of the world's finest indolent characters, is happy, hospitable, courteous. He is an excellent singer and he sings almost all the time. He is also a superb sailor and navigator. The 19th-Century Chief Thakombau was the title character of Adolf Brewster's King of the Cannibal Isles, and there have been cases of Fijis eating each other and missionaries, but the habit has died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Yanks in the Cannibal Isles | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

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