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Word: fan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Afterwards everyone stands around limply wondering how Turpin managed to stand up under the beating. "Him and Lamotta has de hahdest two haids in de world," a fan says, shaking his head. The standee is $270 poorer. His enthusiasm is gone. "Guess I hafta walk home," he mutters to no one in particular and starts down the long flight of stairs. The entertainment is over...

Author: By Winthrop Knowlton, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 9/21/1951 | See Source »

...Afterwards everyone stands around limply wondering how Turpin managed to stand up under the beating. "Him and Lamotta has de hahdest two haids in de world," a fan says, shaking his head. The standee is $270 poorer. His enthusiasm is gone. "Guess I hafta walk home," he mutters to no one in particular and starts down the long flight of stairs. The entertainment is over...

Author: By Winthrop Knowlton, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 9/20/1951 | See Source »

Among the persons Benny has been able to help in the past are many of Harvard's top athletes, and the Crimson football team has no more consistent fan. Each year Benny gives a party for the current and old players after the Yale game; last November 180 men their girls attended the affair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Friend of the Students | 9/12/1951 | See Source »

Sloshing into a Cambridge springtime, the sports fanatic finds more championship material. Bruce Munro still has a strong nucleus of players from the lacrosse squad that last year battled its way to the somewhat nebulous eastern championship. And anyone who tells a Harvard fan that the Crimson crew is not the best in the nation will hear the following argument...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin. jr., | Title: Record Proves Harvard Sports 'Decline' a Myth | 9/12/1951 | See Source »

Over the past two years, Youle's neighborly, screen-porch approach to the weather has brought him thousands of devoted listeners, who deluge him with fan mail. When Chicago soldiers were sent off to Korea, their relatives wrote to Clint for a report on Korea's climate. A southern Illinois coal-mine owner asked-and got -information on how to adjust a barometer for use in his mine. Among Youle's most appreciative fans are the personnel of Chicago's U.S. Weather Bureau, grateful for someone who appreciates the weatherman and who knows how to handle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Weather Guesser | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

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