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Word: byronic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Texas is proud of its homebred sport stars: Football's Sammy Baugh, Baseball's Dizzy Dean, Tennis' Wilmer Allison. But when it comes to golf, the Lone Star State has no lone star but a little dipper full: Ralph Guldahl, Byron Nelson, Jimmy Demaret, Ben Hogan, Lloyd Mangrum, Harry Cooper. In the Augusta Masters last year, Texans finished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Shooting at Fort Worth | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

...Northerners, the 45th U.S. Open looked like a Texas stampede. In local bookie shops, betting commissioners made Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan, onetime fellow caddies at the nearby Glen Garden Club, co-favorites at 5-t01. Some experts rate Nelson the best all-round golfer in the world. Others say the same about Hogan, who has not been out of the money in 47 consecutive big-time tournaments. But in the Open almost anything can happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Shooting at Fort Worth | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

Rear Admiral Arthur Byron ("Cookie") Cook, 59, commands an unannounced number of shore-based aircraft which patrol with the Fleet, at least two carriers (Ranger, the recently added Wasp), and perhaps a third (the Saratoga). Like his chief, he switched to air duty after more than 20 years in surface vessels, had a tour as Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAVY: Stormy Man, Stormy Weather | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

Sirs: If we give Britain the sort of all out aid we sent to Greece, she is going to be all in before receiving it. ... WINNIE BYRON Montezuma, Colo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 26, 1941 | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

...Reader Byron's crack is rather unfair. The U.S. had no time to send any substantial aid to Greece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 26, 1941 | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

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