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Word: glenn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basketball player is supposed to make a good end. W. and M. has two of them. Not only do they play basketball, but Al Vandweghe and Glenn Knox are All-Conference courtmen, and will bring their ball-handling ability to the receiving end of Bud Hubard's passes. They're big, too, and can block...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Veterans Promise Big Year For Strong W. and M. Team | 10/3/1942 | See Source »

...said that while several coaches, notably Alonzo Stagg, Glenn Warner, and George Halas, has made distinct contributions to gridiron strategy these would not have been possible if the material had not been there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: QUAKERS TOPS, HARLOW SAYS | 10/2/1942 | See Source »

Swing fans milled around the Boston Theater's stage door, clamoring for autographs and drying the tears in their eyes. Glenn Miller had played one of his last vaudeville stands for the duration; within the fortnight he will be gobbled up by the Army. But fans, though tearstained, were fickle. Already they had picked a new favorite: the six-foot-one, wavy-haired son of a circus bandleader and circus bareback rider, Trumpeter Harry James. Already the "modern Gabriel" and his band had pied-piped away the followers of many hotter orchestras. When he blew his sweet, shrill horn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Horn of Plenty | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

...Pensacola admiral is Admiral Towers. He has been flying since Glenn Curtiss taught him how in 1911. It was he who commanded the famous NCs when the NC4 became the first (1919) plane to cross the Atlantic. When appointed chief of BuAer he had been 28 years an airman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - NAVY: Battle Lost | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

Commissioned an Army captain, Bandleader Glenn Miller. His orchestra will disband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ASSIGNMENTS: To Duty | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

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