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Word: glenn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army's willingness to undertake this trial followed the Congressional hearing and an unofficial test which Inventor Barlow staged last fortnight in one corner of the well-guarded grounds of the Glenn L. Martin aircraft plant. His guests were newsmen, a few Congressmen and curious Army and Navy officials. He proceeded to show them how safe Glmite was by setting fire to it, shooting a 30/30 bullet through it, firing charges of it from a trench mortar against a steel plate, lob bing a shellful in the direction of his nervous audience - who ducked behind a sandbag barricade. None...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Joshua's Trumpet? | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

Bradley, according to Glenn Miller the country's number one all-around trombonist, and Ray McKinley, drummer extraordinary, head the organization which later this month come to Boston's Raymor after a long sojourn at New York's well-known "Famous Door...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRADLEY'S BAND TO PLAY FOR JUBILEE | 4/10/1940 | See Source »

...broods over the question between General Conventions (next one: next October). Chairman of the female commission is the Auxiliary's Executive Board Chairman Mrs. Robert G. Happ of South Bend, Ind. Some other members: Mrs. Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch of Manhattan's Greenwich House (settlement); Mrs. Charles Leslie Glenn, wife of the popular rector of Christ Church, Cambridge, Mass.; Mrs. Norman B. Livermore, San Francisco socialite and clubwoman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Episcopalians and Divorce | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...Lover's Lullaby (Glenn Gray, Decca). Smoothy-of-the-month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: April Records | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...Hampshire hills. For the express purpose of breaking records, the season's fastest runners are annually invited to stretch their legs on its phenomenally fast, six-and-two-thirds-laps-to-the-mile spruce track-with Dartmouth runners acting as pacemakers. There, two years ago, iron legged Glenn Cunningham ran his amazing 4:04.4 mile. Last year Negro John Borican set world's indoor records for a half-mile (1:49.8) and 800 metres (1:49.2). Last week, at Dartmouth's third record-smashing jamboree, 1,500 onlookers saw not one or two, but eight world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: One Meet: Eight Records | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

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