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Word: guess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jake went to King George's box to receive the royal congratulations. As he walked toward the box he thought to himself, "Here I am, a young punk from California. . . ." But was he nervous? "No. I looked at the King the same way he looked at me. ... I guess both of us figured the other was pretty good in his own line." Said London's Daily Telegraph of Big Jake: "The only one of the postwar generation who could have lived in the company of such great champions as Lacoste and Tilden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Advantage Kramer | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Grassy Meal. At week's end, Prince Abdullah said he had not yet signed any concessions. The oil industry's best guess was that Prince Abdullah had promised one, but first had to go home to get it sanctioned by his xenophobic father, crusty, many-wived Imam Yahya bin Mohamed bin Hamid el Din, 77, called "the world's most independent monarch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: OIL New Giant | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Calm of Ignorance. Bronx-born Regina Resnik was beginning to feel the strain. Said she: "The other times, I guess I had the calm of ignorance, but now it is a nervous strain. I was really scared about Carmen." She was also a little wary of getting a reputation as an operatic spare tire. She had little cause to worry. Since she won the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air and made her surprise debut three years ago, she has sung in many a Met production-Toscx, A'ida, Cavalleria Rusticana, Madame Butterfly, etc. On the strength of such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: For Distress Cases | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

Says versatile Regina Resnik: "My career is still young enough so that every new thing is a new opportunity. As long as I have the nerve, I guess I will help out where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: For Distress Cases | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

...cream factories, four candy and jam plants, a clam bed at Ipswich, Mass. It provides the restaurants with 700 items, ranging from hot dogs to toilet tissue. The company, being privately owned (chiefly by Johnson), has never revealed its profits. With the 200 new branches, however, other restaurateurs guess that Johnson will not be far from his avowed goal of making $1,000,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RESTAURANTS: Formula Profits | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

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