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Word: clouts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, the eastern teams go west-where the fences are farther away, and not even the Giants themselves expect to clout with such abandon. Back in their own backyard, the westerners hope that both the law of averages and the experts' pre-season predictions will start catching up with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Decline of the West | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

...Dancer. In the Hawaiian Islands, Private Herman Zachary, an Indian, got tired of seeing the hula, wrote home to Desmet, Idaho, for his feathers, breech clout, tomahawk and moccasins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 14, 1944 | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

This activity is certain to hamper postwar German attempts to recapture Latin American drug markets. But last week Sterling's stocky, blue-eyed. 46-year-old President James Hill jr. proudly announced that his company was about to deal the Nazis an even shrewder clout. At the express request of the U.S. Alien Property Custodian (and at a guesstimated cost of more than $50,000) Sterling is applying to six Latin American countries, starting with Ecuador" and Costa Rica, for permission to buy up some 120 of I., G. Farben's most venerable trademarks - including the famed Bayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Sterling's Economic Warfare | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

BILL RYAN'S familiar wail, "Never again" will still echo in the East End of Grays for the move order applied mostly to the lads in Middle Grays. . . It's not a play on words for when HOMER SMITH got to bat the other day he really did clout a "home: in that game between Seven and Six. . . he made Seven come eleven. . . ALTER OLLEN ran another Smoker for Charlie the other nite and he surely must have made enough money by now to get married. . . We are still waiting for a week to go by when BURWELL PALM will...

Author: By Melvin Parnell, | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 7/6/1943 | See Source »

...three runs in the first frame, the Crimson nipned away at the Coast Guard lead run by run, and Bob Slattery's two-run home run to left in the fifth put the Stahlmen ahead 5 to 4. But Lou Belanger replied in the sixth with a circuit clout to left center to equalize matters again. Harvard failed to score in the sixth...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Crimson Nine Faces Pesky, Others Here In Battle With Amherst Trainees Friday | 4/28/1943 | See Source »

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