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Word: cains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ended. Nat Fleischer, the ring's most avid fan (TIME, Nov. 22), published his third and-according to him-last edition of the All-Time Ring Record Book (O'Brien Suburban Press, $5). It is an ungrammatical, unprofitable but authoritative history of fisticuffs going back to Cain v. Abel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: On Boxing | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

...Private Cain. In New York, 32-year-old Hitchhiker William J. Cain was stopped by a State Trooper, asked to show his draft card. When it was not forth coming, questions were asked, and the trooper found that Cain had been arrested eleven times in 31 months by the New Haven police, who had never discovered that he had been absent from his Army base without leave since three months before Pearl Harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 15, 1944 | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

Washington matrons avidly devoured each minute detail of this love-after-40 crime passionnel. It was as if a set of genteel Temple Bailey romancers had wandered by mistake into the raw youthful violence of a James M. Cain plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: One of the Best | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...this embarrassingly special situation, James Lincoln gloats that his "profiteering" is unassailable. He just says, "Let the chips fall where they may"-and calls in his lawyers. And he knows that, if the chips fall against him, 1,400 Lincoln employes will raise more Cain than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: The Beloved Profiteer | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...solemnly notes the first fight on record: Cain v. Abel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boxing Buff | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

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