Word: dents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government has been tooting its trumpet in the British Isles for years. In Ontario House files are dossiers on some 125,000 applicants who have signed up to go to Ontario; about 30 hopefuls a day are still coming in. Just last week, 35-year-old William Dent, a tailor who is tired of tailoring, and his 33-year-old wife applied. Said Dent: "We hear they want farm laborers out there and we thought it would be a wonderful chance for us. We don't expect anything like you see in the movies. We just want a home...
...Jayvee's second win over Babson in as many weeks. One reason for victory was the Crimson squad's ability to come through from the foul line. Each team had 26 free throws, but Coach Kopp's five put 17 through the cords, while Babson could only dent the hoop 10 times...
Rank's Caesar & Cleopatra ($2,250,000), the only foreign film to squeeze into the top 60, barely made it (No. 56)-below Two Guys from Milwaukee but above Canyon Passage. Henry V ($700,000 with only ten engagements) was the first real dent, Variety noted, that Shakespeare ever made on the U.S. box office. The Seventh Veil ($2 million) was the "first foreign production to honestly break into the consciousness of the average U.S. filmgoer...
...rain effort to throttle Mariaschin, the Crimson Varsity maintained its careful man to man defense all the way and effectively bottled up the Bruin attack. Hefty Captain George Crimshaw was held to 7 points, while the Zuber brothers, Paul and Dave, who paced the home team scoring, managed to dent the basket for a scant four field goals apiece...
...life has to a large degree been concerned with Basic, Professor Richards is the author of "Foundations of Esthetes." "Practical Criticism," and "Meneins on the Mind." He is no mean mountain climber, and in 1937, 10 years after their marriage, he and his wife were the first to seale Dent Blanche, in the Alps--a feat that was duplicated only years later, and then by a professional-led group...