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Word: latters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Former Varsity coach Bob Ashley, defeated in the singles last week by New England doubles champion Charles Keevil, sought revenge on Keevil successfully in the University doubles, dumping the latter and R. von Blen, 6 to 0 and 6 to 4. Ashley's partner was J. Anderson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 14 Reach Second Round of Tennis Tournament During Week's Matches | 8/21/1947 | See Source »

...many quadrilles with the queen, who is not incongruously impersonated by Binnie Barnes Donat, who happens to be playing an innocuous courtier named Cromwell, seems to have a prior claim, but after a few innocent bearhugs, he and Binnie go the way of all people Henry knew, and the latter, in the absence of a psychiatrist, marries again. But his spirit is broken; his chicken salad days are gone, and he ends up, of all things, henpecked by his last wife...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 8/12/1947 | See Source »

...carried away himself. Toughest problem of the picture: which is the more pathetic, Henry Tudor or Charles Laughton trying to be Henry Tudor? There are a couple of obstacles to be overcome. 1) Watching Laughton laugh, and 2) watching Laughton eat. However, some people may even enjoy the latter; at least some did when the picture first appeared in the Thirties. In the seenes that do not show 1) and 2), there's a fairly steady tailwind to keep you going

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 8/12/1947 | See Source »

However, there are some parts of the write-up which present an untrue view of the beliefs and practices of the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 11, 1947 | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

High blood pressure causes one-third of all U.S. deaths. Doctors have long considered it one of the most dangerous diseases of 20th Century civilization, and one of the least understood. They may have to modify the latter belief, for a group of British scientists have turned up what looks like a solid clue to the disease. Their discovery: high blood pressure seems to be due to a "short-circuiting" of blood circulation in the kidneys, caused by too much nervous excitement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Exciting Discovery | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

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