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Word: joyful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joined by three postal employees, he succeeded in the rescue of two women, Miss Joy Moffett, 24, and Miss Jean Williams, the same age, both of Medford...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junior Swims to Rescue Three Car Smashup Victims | 5/1/1947 | See Source »

Even more impressive was Cincinnati's human skeleton, 6 ft.-5 in. Ewell Blackwell. He looked remarkably like the National League's best pitcher, putting the mighty St. Louis Cardinals to bed with only three hits. In the American League, Detroit's curly-haired pride & joy, Lefty Hal Newhouser, began earning his $60,000-a-year salary first 'time out, letting the Browns down with just four hits and no sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Batter Up! | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...lobby of the recreation building at Greenfield Village, while 105,000 people had filed past. Now, inside St. Paul's, the Very Reverend Kirk B. O'Ferrall read the service. The crowd filed out and a Packard hearse carried the body of Henry Ford out along Joy Road to the small family cemetery beside a four-lane highway. Henry Ford had never ridden comfortably in any car but one of his own make; he wouldn't have liked it. They lowered the coffin into a hole in the wet, clayey mud. The rain came down in buckets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Detroit Dynast | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...flung to the pavement and the scuffing of feet skedaddling after fly balls could be heard in nearly every block. At Ebbets Field, the infield shone emerald-green for next week's opening game. Everything was in order but the Dodgers-and because of them there was little joy in Brooklyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Lip | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...complaining of attempted rape, Mrs. Keith was beaten so badly that two ribs broke. Yet she was the favorite of Camp Commander Colonel Suga, who had read and liked her Borneo book. When the first Allied planes came over Kuching, most of the prisoners were too weak to feel joy. Mrs. Keith, always thin, had lost 30 lbs. when the Australian ground troops took Kuching without a fight. Her six-foot husband came out weighing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: As War Made Them | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

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