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Word: leighs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dirty lie," expostulated Alvin Ruml '45, when he was accused of being the second-best pin-ball shot in College, although he admits John L. Ryan '43 and Armistead C. Leigh '46 to be pretty good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pin-Balling Experts Explain How to Get Free Games | 1/14/1943 | See Source »

...Arcade machine, the Monicker, one of the most temperamental mechanisms in Cambridge, Ruml has come through with a neat 58,000 point score, although an outsider, Charlie Marvin, is temporary high-man there with 65,000. Leigh and Ryan are close behind Ruml...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pin-Balling Experts Explain How to Get Free Games | 1/14/1943 | See Source »

Though in pin-ball circles the great names are unquestionably Leigh, Ruml and Ryan, Colonel Morton Smith, Adjutant of the military R.O.T.C., was recently seen in Dirty Mary's beating the socks off Captain Andrew Marshall in a pin-ball game that enthused onlooking Colonel Francis A. Doniat, professor of Military Science and Tactics, to such an extent that he nearly jarred the machine into a tilt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pin-Balling Experts Explain How to Get Free Games | 1/14/1943 | See Source »

Battleships are hedgehogs. For months the U.S. Navy has used battleships as anti-aircraft ships in carrier task-force screens. The Japs know their worth. Last week, when Captain Thomas Leigh Catch's report on his battleship's part in two South Pacific battles was released, U.S. readers learned their worth as A.A. ships for the first time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Wagons for A.A. | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

...August, NBC came up with an answer: a professionally paced, smartly put-together show called Eyes Aloft (Mondays, 6 p.m. P.W.T.). Mainly responsible for the show's success is a smart Hollywood free lance radio writer named Robert Leigh Redd. Vetoing stuffy talks, Redd sold NBC and the Army on a heartwarming story of A.W.S. volunteers at work. Like an efficient census-taker, he visited 2,000 observation posts and filter centers, jotted down true stories of the modern air Reveres that give the program its dramatic highlights. Some of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Spotter Glamor | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

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