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Word: cains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Jackie Cain, the girl singer, had released her last colorless bubble, and Charlie Ventura's band had slid over its last glissando and flattened its last fifth, the audience applauded politely. No one screamed; no one bounced; no one fell in a fit; no one left. The carefully disorganized music began again, the performers staring blankly at the audience, the audience staring blankly back. Bop was a very serious business-just as serious as swing used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bopera on Broadway | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

Stephenson & Cain. At the moment, both are having some rough edges sanded down. The new Mr. Outside is deerfooted, 170-lb. Halfback Jim Cain, 19, a North Carolina lad with a receding hairline. In high school, Jim Cain was state champion quarter-miler and runs almost as fast in a football suit. Says Blaik: "Yes, he's as fast as Junior Davis, but he can't shift gears as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Army Again | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

Under Blaik's new two-platoon system, Cain & Stephenson operate only on offense. They trot out on the field when the Cadets have the ball, trot off when the enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Army Again | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

That afternoon, Cain didn't show the promise expected of him, but Stephenson did. Ripping Harvard's line to shreds, he gained the impressive total of 170 yards in 21 tries, scored three Army touchdowns (Army won 20-7). This week Army faces one of its toughest tests: unbeaten Cornell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Army Again | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...counter legitimately (from a point of pure logic) that the capitalist nations can never be forgiven for their support of Admiral Kolchak in 1917, when he tried to overthrow the revolution and re-establish ezarism. The outcome of such charge and counter-charge must eventually reduce into whether Cain was a 100 percent American or a mystic Slavic soul when he murdered Abel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grand Jury at Paris | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

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