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Word: lefthandedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ By Sportswriter Bill Corum (Hearst): "Governor Warren is lefthanded. This should account for the left-wing vote. But if the Governor is adamant about not running, the ticket-makers might do worse than try Babe Ruth. Babe has a big following and also would be popular with the southpaws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Seals at Chicago | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

> Henry Wallace still turns out at 6 o'clock to get in a few sets of tennis. On the courts of Washington's Wardman Park Hotel, he plays (lefthanded) a hard-plugging but ungraceful game with his sister or brother-in-law, Swiss Minister Charles Brugmann, occasionally matches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Follow the Leader | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

To launch the "Quint Fleet" of five freighters at Superior, Wis., the Dionne Quintuplets made their first trip to the U.S. Crowds jammed the station platforms along the way, some 15,000 turned up at the shipyard. There, during three and a half hours of oratorical and musical whoop-te...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 17, 1943 | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

It is a typical U.S. success story (janitor's son to national hero), and Gary Cooper plays it with likable restraint. The film is somewhat overlong, repetitive, undramatic, but the facts stick reasonably close to Gehrig's life. The tone is entirely faithful. Gehrig had a stubborn vigor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 3, 1942 | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

Yale has the requirements for the makings of an ideal backfield, according to Harlow, since it has two wingbacks who are lefthanded passers. They are Harrison and Hoopes.

Author: By A. EDWARD Rowse, | Title: Bulldog Football Team Is Green, But Gave Princeton Real Fight | 11/18/1941 | See Source »

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