Search Details

Word: fourteens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Fourteen Jewish G.I.s have come to Lieut. Abramowitz for permission to marry Fraulein. Rejecting every application, he has explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Young Lawgiver | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...even though the office is not permanently pulling up states, it seems a fitting time now to bestow a laurel or two on this group for fourteen months of a job well done. Since January of last year, well over three thousand assorted housing problems have been solved in one way or another; and the greatest crisis of all was successfully passed last September when a small army of veterans and their dependents moved en mass upon Cambridge. Moving with singular rapidity, the University promptly filled in the imminent breach by reconverting a deserted army camp and a hotel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mission Accomplished | 3/7/1947 | See Source »

...handles the net-minding duties, is now completing his third season as the Blue first-string goalie. From the defensive angle, he will be bulwarked by the starting combination of Walt Allen and Jack Calhoun, who are both former letter winners along will all but three of the fourteen regular game performers...

Author: By Oliver Brooks, | Title: Sextet Faces Elis Tonight at Arena; Barclaymen Meet Undefeated Lions | 3/1/1947 | See Source »

...players on Hauptfuhrer in the pivot, a move which all but crippled the Varsity offense. After Gantt broke loose for his three tallies, the Brown team was forced to play Hauptfuhrer more loosely, and George responded with a scoring spurt of his own, scoring eight of his fourteen points after Gantt entered the contest...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Crimson Basketeers Subdue Stubborn Brown Five, 53-40 | 1/9/1947 | See Source »

...child in Brooklyn, Joseph Bonavita dreaded Christmas. His father was dead; often he and his mother had nothing on their table but a candle and a plate of spaghetti. Joe swore he would conquer poverty. He became a professional boxer, and finally, fourteen years ago, bought a bar & grill on Brooklyn's bleak Third Avenue. This year black-haired, bash-nosed Joe Bonavita was 39, married, prosperous in a small way and eating well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Manna from Brooklyn | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

Previous | 230 | 231 | 232 | 233 | 234 | 235 | 236 | 237 | 238 | 239 | 240 | 241 | 242 | 243 | 244 | 245 | 246 | 247 | 248 | 249 | 250 | Next