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Word: fours (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year), trounced the walloping Philadelphia Athletics, rated-with their hundred-thousand-dollar infield-the greatest team in major-league history (just as the Yankees are today). Such wishful fans cited the fact that, out of 34 World Series, 13 had been nabbed with just two pitchers winning the necessary four games. Only five years ago the famed Dean Brothers (Dizzy & Daffy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Four Straight | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...been far too optimistic. This Yankee team was a sure-enough nonpareil. Although big Paul Derringer had pitched a magnificent game, the Yankees, with a magician at every position, had nosed out the Reds, 2-to-1. From then on, it was a rout. They won the Series in four straight games (including a two-hit shutout by ailing Monte Pearson). They won the Series for the fourth year in a row-a feat that not even nonpareils had ever accomplished before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Four Straight | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Engagement Broken. William Edward Dodd Jr., 33, liberal son of the onetime (1933-37) U. S. Ambassador to Germany; and Susan Brownell Anthony II, 25, grandniece of the famed suffragette; in Washington, D. C., four days after it was announced. Mr. Dodd is currently writing the story of his father's experiences in Berlin, Miss Anthony the story of a romance in her great-aunt's life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 16, 1939 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins offered full tuition scholarships for study anywhere in the university to the whole 96. Four accepted at once, several others planned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rhodes Scholars | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...Four days later NYAdministrator Aubrey Williams sent Floyd Reeves, director of the American Youth Commission, on the run to Baton Rouge to find out why Heidelberg had killed himself. As the fall term began, Investigator Reeves reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kickback | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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