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Word: giving (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never ridden Ponder, got a fill-in on his mount. Said Jones: "I don't think he'll win, but he'll beat more horses than beat him. He's slow to settle down to running and easy to knock off stride. He'll give you one good run when you ask for it." Ponder was the calmest of the 14 horses that paraded out to the tune of My Old Kentucky Home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: My Old Kentucky Jones | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...King George case postponed until next fall, the Gloucester County case was decided first. U.S. District Judge Sterling Hutcheson last winter found Superintendent J. Walter Kenney and the three-man school board guilty of contempt for failing to carry out the equalization order. But the judge delayed sentence to give the defendants a little longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For Non-Performance | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...buffoon in each of them. While displaying an old scrapbook of his jokes, Milton was recently asked to explain a page headed: "Ed Wynn Jokes." Said he: "Those are some jokes Ed Wynn once gave me." Says Wynn in Hollywood: "I never gave him any jokes, nor did I give him permission to steal my life's work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Child Wonder | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Milton's own plans are a little more modest. Anxious for a new crack at an old failure, he will probably make a movie this summer if he can get a deal that will give him some control over the picture. He has thought about starring in a show next fall on Broadway, where he has $30,000 in a forthcoming revue. Next month he will start a daily 400-word syndicated column in more than 50 newspapers. He is getting ready to parlay his television winnings into a TV producing company, a TV school and, for tours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Child Wonder | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

When popular Conductor Arthur Fiedler marched to the gladioli-banked podium three days after Koussevitzky's farewell, a hallful of Pops fans were there to give him a roar of welcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: With a Broad Ah | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

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