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Word: gray (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...players, Emil Drvaric. place-kicking export, and Nick Rodis, guard, will play in the Blue-Gray game at Birmingham, Alabama. The conches of the North at this game are "ox" Da Grossa, of Temple, Ray Morrison, also of Temple, and Ray Eliot of Illinois. Da Grossa is head coach, and will probably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: They Pour 'T' Christmas Day | 12/7/1948 | See Source »

Drvaric will probably be called upon to do the kickoffs and placements for the North team at the Blue-Gray game, since he is recognized as one of the best kickers in the East. He will take part in the annual all-star game for the first time but Rodis will be a repeater. in 1944 Nick represented New Hampshire while playing for the Third Air Force team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: They Pour 'T' Christmas Day | 12/7/1948 | See Source »

...prodding Georgia newsmen, Toombs County Sheriff R. E. Gray first reported that Mallard had been killed by men wearing "some white stuff." The Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, Dr. Samuel Green of Atlanta, who insisted the local Klan robes were all locked up that night in the Klavern, opened his own investigation. Soon he had statements from Toombs County law enforcement officers, including Sheriff Gray, exonerating the Klan. Said the sheriff: "This Negro was a bad Negro, as I have had dealings with him. I further know that this Negro was hated by all who knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Just Another Killing | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

Nonetheless, they have dances, and the main memory that came rushing back was about the one that I went to. It took place in a hotel ballroom located three blocks from the school. At the stroke of midnight an awful gray-haired lady blew a whistle, and the girls promptly marched single-file into an armored bus, which took them safely home...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Off The Cuff | 12/4/1948 | See Source »

...murder last night on the steps of Widener Library a little after 7 p.m. Sergeant Toomey, who was forced to stand by helpless during the killing, described the assasin as "a two-tone brown owl, about 14 inches tall, weighing around 10 pounds." His victim was an unidentified gray pigeon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fowl "Whoo-Done-It" Flusters Sgt. Toomey | 11/30/1948 | See Source »

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