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Word: graceful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Turning from France's political crisis, Paris' Franc Tireur wrote gravely: "It was a happy day for those wise individuals who, in this epoch, still take the time to breathe and know how to combine with grace the futile and the agreeable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Happy Day for the Wise | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...change of scene was healthy also for the Choral Society, which showed considerable improvement over its first performance some weeks ago in Sanders. Ruth Abbot's arrangements of two Kentucky folksongs, "The Water-Cresses" and Hi Ho the Preacher Man," were sung with delicacy and grace. Cynthia Sweeney's solo in the former showed confidence and excellent control of her nice soprano...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 12/6/1947 | See Source »

Although his players are hampered by the squash coach's traditional bugaboo of inexperience, Barnaby has a large part of his 1946 Varsity back, and feels he has cause for optimism, Captain Adam Foster returns to grace the number one spot, while right behind him are Bill Wightman and George Stevens, playing two and three respectively. Other veterans with a year's Varsity experience behind them are such dependables as Scotty Stewart, Lane McGovern, Milt Heath, and Jim McKittrick, while Foster's brothers Hugh and Henry have both joined him as sure starters. The former was number...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/28/1947 | See Source »

...Finn, who passes and calls plays for the Bruins, is probably the slickest T-quarter to grace Soldiers Field since Ed Clasby of the Boston College Eagles tested the Crimson in an early September scrimmage. Finn threw the winning pass against Yale last weekend...

Author: By Robert Carswell, | Title: Brown Stomps in Today as 13-Point Favorite | 11/15/1947 | See Source »

...backfield are some of the best runners to grace the Freshman ranks in a long time. John West, John White, Carl Bottenfield and Jim Lowell make up the first string but Ed Stearns, Phil Isenberg, Bob Diblasio and Dave Warden, to mention only a few, see almost as much action...

Author: By Rafael M. Steinberg, | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/15/1947 | See Source »

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