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Word: fours (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Four days of investigation have convinced detectives that a professional art thief is responsible for the disappearance of two Rembrandt etchings and a Degas drawing from the Princeton Art Museum Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Art Works Lifted From Princeton | 6/15/1949 | See Source »

Roger Bannister, best young British miler since Jack Lovelock, is expected to run the fastest American mile of the season in Monday's 15th Oxford-Cambridge-Harvard-Yale track meet at the Stadium. The slim Oxford medical student did 4:11.1 at Princeton Saturday for one of the four first places the Englishmen picked up in losing to Princeton-Cornell, 9-4. The only faster mile which has been run in the United States this spring was a 4:10.1 by Wisconsin's Don Gehrmann in the Kansas Relays...

Author: By Steve Cady, | Title: Oxford's Bannister May Be Top Man in Monday's Meet | 6/15/1949 | See Source »

...Four-Hour Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scantily-Clad '52s, Rowers Battle Finals in Absentia | 6/15/1949 | See Source »

...four Crimson crews took their first long workout since the start of exams last Thursday, their first day at Red Top. They have had long practice sessions every day since then, confining their rowing to the early morning and late evening. The middle of the day is still being used for final exams, but by tomorrow the full-scale training program goes into effect--20 miles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Varsity 11 Seconds Over Record in Time Trial | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...they must have a plot that runs along the lines of "It Happens Every Spring." As a chemistry professor who turns to pitching when he discovers a solution that repels wood, Ray Milland wins 38 ball games in the regular season for St. Louis, then goes on to win four more in the World Series. Every time a bat gets near one of the magic pitches, the ball hops up and over, into the catcher's mitt. The whole picture is just as ridiculous as the ball's behavior and, as such, makes delightful summer entertainment...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: It Happens Every Spring | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

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