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Word: em (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This puts a premium on the ability to sugarcoat the English language to the point where a three-base error becomes merely a tough break. But even kindness of this sort is not enough to placate your athletes-critics, who constantly stantly try to corrupt your attempts to "Write 'em as you see 'em" by burdening you with their side of the story. This has even been carried to the point where a team-mate of an errant star interceded for him on the grounds that he was suffering from a hangover at the time of his shoddy deeds...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 6/22/1949 | See Source »

...church, I am confident, any designs on the reins of the Rev. Barnes's semi-Communistic religion of the future by using the strategy of the rabbits: "If you can't outrun 'em, stay here and outnumber 'em...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 13, 1949 | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...Mirror turned its front page right-side-up, dropped most of its color, shortened and sharpened its stories, and started screaming like a tabloid. Obedient to Publisher Pinkley's order to "local 'em to death," it began to play up circulation-catching sex, crime and crusading stories with a Los Angeles angle. The Mirror offered $100,000 in rewards to readers who helped solve 20 local murders, exposed a baby-adoption racket, and pursued Rita & Aly from continent to continent with the determined zest of a private eye on a fat expense account. But the tabloid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Shiny Mirror | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...days of this sort of thing should suffice to bring the crews back to the physical peak necessary to end their season unbeaten. Bolles has a more humane theory of how to coach a crew than his Yale counterpart, Allen, Walz, a devotee of the work-em-till-they-drop school of though. While Harvard crewmen are allowed to sit around and dissipate most of the winter, the hardy Elis are out on the river, simulating Washington crossing the Delaware. Theoretically, this will make them strong to the point of invincibility come the Harvard-Yale four mile pull in 'late...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Crews Adjourn to Red Top To Prepare for Yale Race | 6/9/1949 | See Source »

LeRoy appeared in the Third District Court of Middlesex at 9 a.m. yesterday, to answer a complaint stemming from his pointing a water pistol at Miss Pauline Gunn on Boylston Street Friday and allegedly saying something to the effect of "Stick 'em...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Water Gun 'Attacker' Gets Case Postponed | 5/24/1949 | See Source »

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