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Word: brooklyn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nomination is Mr. Burt Shotton, manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers. In demonstrating that the vulgar crudities . . . are not, essentially, an integral part of a winning baseball team, Mr. Shotton has given a renewed respect, a freshened impulse, to our National Pastime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 24, 1947 | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...Brooklyn, a Howard Hughes-for-President club raised its head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Strenuous Life | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...make a good first baseman. Explained Jackie: "I can't sing or dance." But at Harlem's Apollo Theater and Washington's Howard, Robbie picked up more money in two weeks than the $5,000 Branch Rickey paid him for seven months with the pennant-winning Brooklyn Dodgers (TIME, Sept. 22). Last week his show played Chicago's Regal Theater. It wasn't much of an act. He was onstage only eight minutes, and he neither sang nor danced-just answered, in a modest manner and a clear voice, questions about his career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Riches for a Rookie | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

Those of Senior Class standing who were elected are Ray E. Donner '45 of Leverett House and Los Angeles; Stanley J. Friedman '48 of Adams House and Brooklyn, New York; Arnold Golodets '48 of Lowell House and New York; Harlan P. Hanson '46 of Kirkland House and Madison, Wisconsin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phi Beta Kappas Pick Sixteen New College Members | 11/21/1947 | See Source »

...Juniors picked are William J. Barber '46 of Kirkland House and Abileno Kanens; Dautel B. Ray '49 of Winthrop House and Brooklyn, New York; Walter I. Tibette, Jr. '41 of 83 ragar Lano, Walthan; Detler F. Vagts '49 of Winthrop House and Sherman, Connecticut...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phi Beta Kappas Pick Sixteen New College Members | 11/21/1947 | See Source »

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