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Word: finalities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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That ended the one flicker of excitement in a drab fight. The fans began booing in the ninth round and kept it up intermittently until the final bell. Someone asked Promoter Joe Louis who he thought had won. "Ain't sayin'," muttered Joe, "I didn't pay to get in." For their $246,546, the customers did not see anybody Charles' seriously manager, hit the who floor fainted in except the Ezzard ring as his lackluster leather-thrower was being proclaimed the new heavyweight cham pion of the world (National Boxing Asso ciation version, not good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: I Didn't Pay to Get In | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

Happy in the U.S., Szent-Gyorgyi has taken out first papers for naturalization. He plans to keep on looking for the final answer to the action of muscle, "the most wonderful material to analyze the basic principles of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Muscle Man | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

When Patton got on the blocks for the 100-yard final, athletes from 75 colleges paused to watch the great sprinter run his last hundred for the University of Southern California. At the gun, Patton uncoiled like a spring, his long, slender legs pumping, with Stanfield right beside him in an adjoining lane. In the last 20 yards, Patton pulled away enough to win by a yard in 9.7 (slow time compared to the world record 9.3 he hung up last year at Fresno, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Last Hundred | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

Fred Allen (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Guests on final show: Jack Benny and Henry Morgan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jun. 27, 1949 | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...Rhoads is enlarging her dangerous laboratory. One is to try the encephalitis virus on monkeys. The laboratory strain has lived so long in mouse brains that it may have lost its ability to attack primates. If it proves harmless to monkeys, it probably will not hurt humans. The final step will be to try it on human cancer patients to see if it attacks their tumors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Frontal Attack | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

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