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Word: gil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Howe's blast to deep left. In the seventh, Mort Dunn walked, went to second on a wild pitch and took third on Bud Gibbs' single to left. Gibbs stole second; Dunn scored and Gibbs went to third as Harrison struck out, and scored a minute later when Gil Richards walked with the bases loaded...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Springfield Stops J.V. Nine's Skein With 7-4 Triumph | 5/11/1948 | See Source »

Frank Effinger, second to Gil Dodds in the B.A.A. mile this winter will run today for Andover against the Freshmen (this meet will be run off in the Stadium simultaneously with the Varsity-Dartmouth competition...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Baseball, Track Teams Feature Big Weekend | 5/1/1948 | See Source »

Reluctantly, Coach Ryder canceled three of Gil Dodds's races, including the New York Athletic Club's Baxter Mile, and sadly told reporters that the Iron Deacon had probably "run the last indoor race" of his career. But Ryder hoped to get Dodds back in shape to win the outdoor 1,500-meter Olympic championship at London this summer, before he retires to take up preaching fulltime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dodds Mumped | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...amazement of 15,000 track fans at Madison Square Garden, the Reverend Gil Dodds* bolted straightaway into the lead. Their Iron Deacon, the greatest miler the U.S. ever produced, usually waits a lap or two before showing his heels. As he sped around the board track, his arms flailing like windmills, Dodds heard a heavy-set man in a tuxedo chanting out the time to him: "Twenty-point-five . . . twenty-two," and he knew he was running well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Traveling Pastor | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...house in Concord, devoted himself to writing his wartime memoirs, Letter from Grosvenor Square, about to be released by Houghton Mifflin. In recent weeks his friends had begun to worry a little about him-he showed signs of deep fatigue. But they did not guess how 58-year-old Gil Winant would end it. One night this week he shut himself in an upstairs room of the Concord house, shot himself through the temple with a .32-caliber pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW HAMPSHIRE: Agonized Man | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

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