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Word: buttes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lookee here; we had a nice juicy gripe which we've been nursing for five months and were all steamed up about it this week, but it looks like moves are being made to fix things. Of course its you melodious and spirited Stat, Corps boys who are the butt this gripe...

Author: By M. J. Roth, | Title: STRAIGHT DOPE | 7/1/1943 | See Source »

...prettiest plays in sport is soccer's "corner kick"-a free kick booted from the corner of the field toward the players of both teams, who try to kick or butt the ball into the net or down the field. In The Bronx's Starlight Park this week, corner kicks and other fancy head-and-footwork were executed with rare artistry. The performers were the two foremost big-league outfits in the U.S.: the Brooklyn Hispanos and Pittsburgh's Morgan Strassers, facing each other in soccer's equivalent of the baseball World's Series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Booters' Trophy | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

...Manhattan-born Georgie was singing in a movie theater with Walter Winchell; at eleven he was part of Gus Edwards' kid troupe; as an adolescent he teamed with Eddie Cantor, his lifelong friend and butt. A big laugh-getter in his early 20s, in his late 20s he proved an even bigger tear-jerker in The Jazz Singer. His biggest success since then came this season on Broadway in Show Time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: By Georgie | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

...down. Lucien landed in a pile of brush, wrapped himself in his parachute and went to sleep. Brick landed hard on his fanny on top of the next mountain peak and dozed off. One boy landed beside a mountain ledge, lit a cigaret in the dark, flicked the burnt butt on the ground beside him. He looked down and saw the butt dropping hundreds of feet below him into what seemed a bottom less void. He didn't move another foot until daylight. Crouch hit the ground about 20 miles from a Chinese field where the flight was heading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Trip to Japan | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

...carelessly tossed cigarette butt was the probable cause of a $1500 blaze on the top floor of Thayer Hall last Friday, fire department officials announced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thayer Singed as Cigarette Causes $1500 Conflagration | 4/30/1943 | See Source »

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