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Word: fasted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Feller, Bob Lemon, Bearden, Paige), the Braves had two workhorse throwers, who between them may start in five games. One was big, slow-talking Johnny Sain from Arkansas (with 1948's best record of 24 wins, 15 losses). The other is Left-hander Warren Spahn (15-12), whose fast ball shimmies & shakes. Favored to win: Cleveland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Annual Fever | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...chief wrecker was slim, 165-lb. Halfback Charlie ("Choo Choo") Justice. He ran like a jack rabbit, fast and zigzaggy. Against Texas, Choo Choo scored two touchdowns, threw passes for two more, modestly demurred when called upon to score another. "I've had my flurry," he said in the huddle. "Give somebody else a chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Jack Rabbit of Chapel Hill | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...Four years ago Walter H. Annenberg's Triangle Publications killed Click, a thriving magazine with 1,000,000 circulation, in order to use its paper for fast-growing Seventeen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cannibalized | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Turbojet engines are fine for fast fighter planes and fast, short-range bombers. But in long-range bombers and commercial airplanes there is much to be said for the dependability and fuel economy of the old-fashioned piston-and-propeller engine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hybrid Vigor | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...inside the huge, dark loft, and the dust begins to swirl and the ones on the wagon are pitching hay up at you as fast as they can, and you are trying tp stow it back in the loft. In about two minutes the place begins to put on a very good imitation of purgatory, for the sun is beating down mercilessly on a tin roof over your head, and the loft is one big black Stifling oven. I wish I had thought a little about that cow barn, back in the days when I was committing so many sins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mystics Among Us | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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