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Word: jinxes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members: Pat O'Brien, Jimmy Dodd, Ruth Carrell, Harry Brown, Betty Yeaton, Jinx Falkenburg. They also played the B-29 bases around Chengtu, won G.I. praise for taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE ASIA: Our Bases Are Missing | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...Fails to Break Jinx...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Squelches Boston College 'T', 13-0 For Fourth Win, Before 43,000 Spectators | 10/10/1944 | See Source »

Boston College, unable to break its jinx, has yet to beat a Harvard football team. The Crimson victory was sweet revenge for the 6 to 6 tie last year at Soldiers Field. Bill Sweeney, Ed Davis, and Walt Coulson played bang-up defensive games for the Crimson as the granite line stopped all B.C. scoring threats. Blocking and tackling was vicious; the contest was "informal" in name only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Squelches Boston College 'T', 13-0 For Fourth Win, Before 43,000 Spectators | 10/10/1944 | See Source »

...Jinx Falkenburg, swore her Hollywood pressagent, was something more than a pin-up girl: students at an Army flight school (unnamed) had affixed her picture to planes in a really permanent way-she was the first rivet-up girl ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 15, 1943 | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

...every moundsman has his jinx...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sloughing Odds | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

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