Word: ebbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...triumph was the second in as many starts for the Freshmen, but they were not impressive. Illness and injuries to key players hold the team's efficiency at a low ebb...
...tide of Republican fortunes which began to ebb sixteen years ago, and almost disappeared in 1936, yesterday came flooding back with a force equalling even the fondest dreams of B. Carroll Reece, the G.O.P. national chairman. With control of the House of Representatives assured and a majority in the Senate indicated by the latest returns, the Republicans can read the lessons of history and look forward to 1948 with confidence. For without exception, the capturing of a Congressional majority by the party out of power in an off-year election has presaged a Presidential victory by that party two years...
Like many another U.S. citizen, Harry Truman had been planning vacations since the snow melted last spring. He had hoped to go to the Philippines, had planned a trip to Alaska. But he had stayed in the capital instead, watching crisis after crisis surge and ebb away...
Divorced. Oscar Homolka, 45, stage star (I Remember Mama), film character actor (Rhodes, Ebb Tide); by third wife Florence Meyer Homolka, 35, daughter of Washington Post Owner and World Bank President Eugene Meyer; after seven years of marriage, two sons; in Hollywood...
Dunster rang up the highest softball score of the intramural campaign by trouncing Lowell 20 to 8 yesterday, in a free-swinging contest which found fielding and pitching at a low ebb. Dick Steuer twirled for the Funsters and did not fare too badly on the earned-run count. Several Dunster four-baggers were tainted with errors afield, while Bob Morgan poled out a prodigious homer for the losers with one mate aboard...