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Word: bus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leagues, twelve have folded this year: ten were frightened out of starting the season, two gave up when seacoast dimout regulations prevented night games. Approximately 25% of their players have been lost to the armed forces and higher-paid defense jobs. Another wartime blow to the night-playing, bus-traveling minor league clubs was the recent ODT ban on chartered busses. But as long as they can get around in borrowed station wagons, baseball's bush leaguers have no intention of quitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: War & Baseball | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

Problems of transportation for away games, which have been some of the H. A. A.'s most serious worries in relation to the informal ball season are being solved by the Army today. Fort Devens is sending a bus to pick up and deliver the Crimson team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON NINE MAY FACE DEVENS PITCHING ACE | 7/15/1942 | See Source »

...last week. A free fish fry-15.000 lb. of mullet and hushpuppies-had been a-fixing for two days. Little Moultrie (pop. 10,147) was packed with yellow school buses, highway-patrol cars, the sedans of Talmadge's "Palace Guard" at the State Capitol. There was even a bus labeled UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA STUDENTS FOR TALMADGE -though when the passengers stuck their heads out for a photographer only two seemed to be under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Change in the Weather | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

...Saturday to celebrate a non-explosive Fourth. Entertained with a soft-ball game, swimming, and a three-group like up Blue Hill, and nourished by Howie Oedel '43 and his two assistants, Win Bernard '43 and Bob Townsend '43, the trip ended successfully at 7 o'clock with a bus ride back to Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Outing Club Plans To Repeat Weekend Trip | 7/10/1942 | See Source »

Well Done. Next morning, when a special bus with a State police escort came to take the merchant seamen away, first-aiders embraced them, townspeople waved, cheered them on their way. Then there was more work to do. Foot-weary village women returned to the hotel, swept, mopped, dusted, turned it back to the owner in the early afternoon, pin-clean and good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVILIAN DEFENSE: Dear Wife, I am O.K. | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

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