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Word: burgs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stiffed the Straus pass attack with frequent interceptions. Bob Campbell ran back one of these to a touchdown, after a quick kick by Ted Berkeley had driven Straus to its own goalline. Steve Kurzman, whose passing has highlighted the Lionel offense all season, tossed scoring passes to Hank Green-burg and Dick Chamberlain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lionel Six Downs Straus, 19-0, for Freshman Crown | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

...days after the Erfdeel test, the South African Press Association flashed still more exciting news. A test bore on another farm near Erfdeel had reportedly assayed out even richer. At this, Jo'burg's frantic speculators ran up the Free State Gold Areas shares to a high of $11.28-and Promoter Milne's paper profits were estimated at somewhere between $8 million and $20 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOLD: Free State Fiasco | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...both the Jo'burg and London exchanges the great gold boom collapsed. Free State shares, which had started dropping on news of the false press report, plummeted to $2.62. It remained to be seen how much gold Milne's claim would finally yield. But Milne did not seem worried. He gave a cocktail party for 500 guests and expressed the hope that he could soon arrange for "quotation of my shares on the American market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOLD: Free State Fiasco | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...window, a pair of rocks in mid-Atlantic called Peter & Paul was all there was to see below. They talked, drank cocktails, ate from trays, played gin rummy, and waited for the ocean to end at Dakar. Some flew the new air trade route south to "Jo'burg" (Johannesburg). Others went north to Lisbon where they found the almond trees blooming by day and the mournful fado echoing in the cafes at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Clipper Skipper | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...Freedman (H); third, Burns (BU): time--56.7. 150-yd. Individual Mcdley Relay won by Wheeler (H); second, Taylor (BU); third, Fearn (BU); time--1:57.4. Dive won by Callery (BU); second, Sandberg (H); third Johnson (H): winner's points--66.5 150-yd. Medley Relay won by Harvard(Dorris, Hurwitz, Burg): time--1:32.6. 200-yd. Freestyle Relay won by BU (Eldridge, Gagnon, Sheehy, Read): time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Yardling Squad Outswims BU Team, 54-21 | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

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