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Word: hunts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Singles--Ray (Y) defeated Ager (H), 6-2, 6-0; Norris (Y) defeated Bullard (H), 6-4, 7-5; Lynch (Y) defeated Ames (H), 6-2, 3-6, 10-8; Hunt (Y) defeated Frey (H), 6-2, 6-1; Hughes (H) defeated Carr (Y), 6-4, 4-6, 6-2; Hands (Y) defeated Swartzman (H), 6-2, 6-3; Stokes (Y) defeated Robb (H), 6-8, 6-2, 6-2; Hooe (Y) defeated Hatten (H), 8-6, 6-8, 10-8; Tobias (H) defeated Bright (Y), 3-6, 6-3, 6-4; Gordon defeated Bliss...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Tennis Squad Loses to Yale By One Point | 5/31/1949 | See Source »

...Hammond was in a tight spot. Adventurous Ham, who had rocketed to the planet Venus to hunt xixtchil, a scarce, rejuvenating drug, searched desperately for a way to save himself and his lovely companion, Pat Burlingame. They had been backed into a fearsome dusky canyon by the "doughpot," one of the most monstrous creatures on the whole planet. A white mass of nauseous protoplasm weighing several tons, the doughpot had neither intelligence nor any fixed form: it just rolled itself instinctively toward anything edible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Never Too Old to Dream | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Martita (The Madwoman of Chaillot) Hunt and Lee J. (Death of a Salesman) Cobb rated bravos as the best actors of the Broadway season from the toughest audience of all: Manhattan's drama critics. Basso Ezio (South Pacific) Pinza nudged aside Alfred (Kiss Me, Kate) Drake as the best musicomedy male. Mary (South Pacific) Martin danced off with all the votes for top musicomedienne...

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

What makes Charles Dickens such a tough cadaver for the dissector is the fact that he embodied (in the words of his friend Leigh Hunt) "the life and soul ... of 50 human beings." Some of these 50 beings were pretty sleazy characters, and they have been sternly ignored by those whom Pearson calls "Dickolators." Most biographers have refused to admit that their idol often fell short of the ideal Dickens expressed: a "glowing, hearty, generous, mirthful, beaming [attitude] to Home and Fireside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Holy Terror | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Coyotes, says Author Dobie, know how to play dead, disguise themselves, hunt in groups; they are said to climb to the same hilltop every evening to sing; they play jokes, trick other animals, imitate the sounds they hear, and they learn man's ways with incredible rapidity. Fences cannot keep these sly relations of the dog and the wolf out of a sheep range or a chicken yard: some Southwest natives believe that they talk to the fences and the fences open up and let them through. Barbed-wire fences had some trouble understanding them at first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Part of the Life | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

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