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Word: fives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bellboys, with five backfield injuries, clicked a few times but were not inspired. They managed to tighten their defense in the secondly, but by then it was too late...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elephants Run Over Bellboys, 13-0; Gold Coasters Edge Funsters, 6-0 | 10/19/1949 | See Source »

More fast, tricky playing produced another touchdown, but the Elephants drew a five-yard penalty and were unable to make the score on second try. Charlie Cabot scored the second touchdown in the last quarter, but this conversion, unlike the first, was blocked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elephants Run Over Bellboys, 13-0; Gold Coasters Edge Funsters, 6-0 | 10/19/1949 | See Source »

...Netherlands have contributed more than tulip bulbs and wooden shoes to the furtherance of civilization. On our five-day cruise through the Dutch canals we found "Heineken's Bier" superior to any brand on tap at Jim Cronin's. Judging by our boat, however, the country's sea power is declining. "The "Swallow IT" was a 20-foot converted life boat with a lowerable mast which left the vessel still too high to go under bridges, an engine which required the constant attention of two deafencd men, and a stove that never worked. But the scenery and the people made...

Author: By Mary CHANNING Stokes, | Title: Social Notes From All Over: Students Abroad | 10/18/1949 | See Source »

...Sureseaters had opened in San Diego and Salt Lake City. Others were planned in Denver, Seattle, Portland, Tacoma. Los Angeles, which had gotten five new sureseaters in twelve months, would soon get one more which has hitherto specialized in westerns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sureseaters | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Bald, stocky, 59-year-old Doc Hill had tried almost everything else on the island of Hawaii before Dible got him into flowers five years ago. Hill's first job, in 1913, was selling eyeglasses to Japanese plantation hands on Hawaii at $3 apiece. He did so well that he opened a jewelry store, later branched out to finance, real estate, autos (he has the General Motors franchise on Hawaii), movie theaters (he owns ten) and utilities (he is president and principal stockholder of Hilo Electric Light Co., Ltd.). When Hill's wife started shipping a few orchids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Blossom Boom | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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