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Word: burtons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...unable to make the trip because of illness, while Ellis, regular number three player, remains in Cambridge because of heavy scholastic duties. Coach Barnaby yesterday named nine players to make the trip: Jim Jenkins, Captain Orme Wilson, Hugh Hyde, Bill Kissel, Howie Ezell, Ted Cohn, Will Nicholl, Lin Burton and Dick Sorlien...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trackmen Race B.C. Informally Saturday; Weakened Tennis Team Faces Princeton | 4/17/1942 | See Source »

...people scratched their heads. What, indeed, was a good name for the war? Asked for his suggestion, onetime Isolationist Senator Burton K. Wheeler declared: "There is far too much pending now to permit anyone to stop and ponder anything like the name for this war. Moreover it is far better to wait until it is over. Then it can be more appropriately named." Snapped Senator Robert Taft: "I am no zipper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Unnamed War | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

...next day the Crimson found Vanderbilt a team in its own class, and the netmen won after a long, tough struggle. Captain Orme Wilson, Hugh Hyde, and Lindley Burton were the winners in singles matches, and the Jim Jenkins-Burton and Will Nicholl-Russ Ellis duets took doubles victories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TULANE TOPS TENNIS TEAM | 4/7/1942 | See Source »

...addition to Everts, Coach Barnaby expects to take the following men to New Orleans for the round robin tournament sponsored by Tulane University: Jim Jenkins, Hugh Hyde, Captain orme Wilson, Russ Ellis, Will Nicholl, and Lindley Burton. The group will leave Saturday morning...

Author: By A.edward Rowse, | Title: Improved Tennis Team Seen For This Season | 3/26/1942 | See Source »

Nicholl and Burton will have a head start in the fight for the last singles slot because of the spring trip, but they will have to encounter a good deal of opposition from a host of aspirauts for the honor, including Howie Ezell, who played the position most of last year...

Author: By A.edward Rowse, | Title: Improved Tennis Team Seen For This Season | 3/26/1942 | See Source »

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