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Word: corbett (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Graves, Rolla Cambell, and Larry Corbett will race the 600-yard event; while Joe Scott and Bob Houghton, who ran the mile last year, are in the 1000-yard run. In the high jump are Bob Partlow, John Bunker, and Mike Zara; Kay Rogers and John Sopka are running the mile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY RUNNERS ENTER VFW MEET | 1/10/1941 | See Source »

...fear that action pictures of the conquests of big, black Champion Jack Johnson (who not only mauled white fisticuffers but married a white woman) would cause race riots. Of all the bumper crop of white hopes raised to beat Johnson, the choice of Roosevelt I and of Gentleman Jim Corbett was the then reigning national amateur heavyweight champion, 22-year-old Warren Barbour. Boxer Barbour, son of a wealthy thread manufacturer and known to his many admirers as "The Millionaire Kid," was not averse, but his parents dissuaded him from turning professional. Last year, with another and more popular Negro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Boxers Triumph | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

Heading the milers will be Paul Johrde, who broke the Freshman record for the 1,000 at Exeter this winter. Ted Graves, Fred Phinney, and Paul Cook will handle the half-mile, while Larry Corbett and Charley Tobias will compete...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YARDLING TRACKSTERS TO MEET EXETER TEAM | 5/1/1940 | See Source »

Died. Elizabeth Corbett Yeats, 71, artist sister of the late great Poet William Butler Yeats; after brief illness; in Dublin. (News of her death reached the U. S. a month late, in a censor-delayed letter from her painter-brother Jack Butler Yeats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 26, 1940 | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

Hubbard once toured ten weeks in vaudeville on the same bill with Lauder and Pugilist Jim Corbett. Chatting together one evening over a soft drink, Sir Harry wise cracked: "Mr. Hubbard is the only one of us who wears his make-up on the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soap Man | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

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