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Word: handedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barry Turner, Number Two Pitcher In Charge of Non-League Contests, left-handed his way through eight and two-thirds innings against Amherst here yesterday and received credit for a 5 to 4 win, even though Ira Godin had to relieve and get the final out.

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Turner Defeats Amherst for Crimson Nine, 5-4 | 5/26/1949 | See Source »

No Sale. Republican Floor Leader Kenneth Wherry leaped to that suggestion: "Figures handed me show that the U.S. has lost the sale of more than 300,000 bales of cotton. That number of bales could have been sold to Spain during [the past] two years." Added Texas' Tom Connally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Symbol of What? | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Joseph Levitch) were the talk of the town. Last week, almost three years later, Martin & Lewis were the talk of show business. At Manhattan's copious Copacabana, the team had just smashed an eight-year house record for receipts-and in the depth of a general nightclub depression. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Talk of Show Business | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

The first day at the typewriter, after working for an hour, he got the old terrifying constriction in his chest and the pain in his left arm. He called to his wife Eva, who brought him a glass of brandy and promised to call the doctor. After a second drink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Second Chance | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Background Material. In Manhattan, when Waiter George Tucker was fired because his boss thought that Tucker's urge to write a novel might possibly embarrass patrons, New York State Mediation Board Arbitrator Sidney A. Wolff handed down the ruling for his reinstatement: "To deny a would-be author employment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 23, 1949 | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

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