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Word: dueling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second charge was that the big, high-flying B-36 was a sitting duck. Last week the Joint Chiefs of Staff sensibly ruled that there could be "no useful purpose" in staging a duel in public between the B-36 and jet fighters. The memorandum was unwillingly signed by Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, the senior member of the JCS, whose Naval airmen had started all the hullabaloo in the first place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: It's a Lie | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...slugging Jackson College nine out-exercised Radcliffe's softball squad, 21 to 9, on the Annex Quad yesterday afternoon, in anything but a pitchers' duel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jackson Outbats 'Cliffe, 21-9 | 5/24/1949 | See Source »

Dunster House's intramural softball team ended its season on a note of glory yesterday as it walloped a team of House tutors, 15 to 1, on the Business School Field. Steve Best bested John Major, teaching fellow in English, in the rainy pitching "duel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dunster Beats Tutors | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...hammer will witness a duel between Harvard's Dan Tucker and Andover's Dave Reed, both of whom can whip the ball about 165 feet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '52 Track Team To Meet Andover | 5/14/1949 | See Source »

...their positions. Merindol had frantically practiced saber fighting for four days, but he was no match for Fèvre's skill. After a few parries the heavy cavalry sword dropped from his bleeding hand. The umpire pronounced him fit to fight on, but had to stop the duel a few seconds later. Fèvre was striking out so furiously (see cut") that he feared Merindol might get seriously hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: A Blow for Bonaparte | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

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