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Word: ely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieut. Colonel Edwin Stephenson and three enlisted men saw a German tank running down a road and knocking down U.S. infantrymen like bowling pins. Another tank headed for Colonel Stephenson, Corporals Perry Baker and Alvin Copeland and Private Eli Franklin. The Colonel said: "Boys, let's stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Shape of Hell | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

...comment has been received yet from New Haven, where athletic authorities had been holding the date open on the chance that Harvard might consider the 150 miles between New Haven and Cambridge a reasonable distance for the Eli eleven to travel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Eleven Plays Coast Guard Nov. 20 | 9/17/1943 | See Source »

...John Harvard was John Harvard when Eli...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 8/24/1943 | See Source »

...John Harvard will be John Harvard when Eli's busted up." Signed. Indignant, nay, Apoplectic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 8/24/1943 | See Source »

Canny, suave Eli Oberstein asks no embarrassing questions. His recordings bear such names as Johnny Jones, Willie Kelly. Oberstein's Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer and You'll Never Know, have rolled up sales of 200,000 discs. Irritated Boss Petrillo has been unable to find anything amiss. "It's very simple," remarks Eli Oberstein, "I pick up any tune I like, and the records just come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Petrillo Perplexed | 6/28/1943 | See Source »

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