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Word: killinger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Firmly entrenched in fifth place in the League standing thanks to Saturday night's overtime decision over Penn, the Varsity basketball team started off for Ithaca yesterday afternoon to attempt the giant-killing act of beating Cornell.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOOPSTERS START FOR BATTLE WITH ITHACANS | 2/28/1940 | See Source »

Last March 26 a Braniff Airways Chicago-Dallas airliner cracked up near Oklahoma City's airport on a night takeoff, killing seven passengers and the stewardess. Since then no U. S. airline has suffered a passenger fatality. With five weeks to go for the first year of perfect operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fingers Crossed | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

In Dublin the Irish Times editorialized: "According to all principles of British law, there can be no doubt of their guilt. The appeal we are making is ad misericordiam. Admittedly we have no case, but in our view there are higher considerations than stern justice and law." In Britain the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EIRE: Ultimate Cause | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (Warner Bros.) is 606, the arsenical compound that the dumpy, cigar-puffing Jewish genius found he could shoot into syphilitics and kill the pale spirochetes of syphilis without killing their victim. Warner Brothers have long been afraid that the bullet might ricochet from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 19, 1940 | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

Skeleton on Horseback (Czech). This last picture made by the Czechs from one of the last plays of their late great playwright, Karel Capek (R. U. R.), is reported to have been smuggled out of Czechoslovakia shortly after the German invasion. It is a lurid appeal for pacifism. Dr. Galen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

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