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Word: lines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctors predicted yesterday that the injury lineman Joe Busch suffered during Saturday's intra-squad football game "may cause repercussions" in the sporting world. Busch, a transfer student from Ames, lowa, walked off the field after a second-period line play with an eyeful of "Unbreakable" contact lens fragments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Contact Lens Accident May End in Probe | 4/21/1949 | See Source »

...major proposition, therefore, by the Key is that these working members be increased to 32 to balance a reduced Representative Body, and given equal vote. The Cabinet, in line with increased efficiency, would be reduced from nine to seven members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Meets Tonight to Fix Key's Charter | 4/21/1949 | See Source »

...even very successful ones like George Abbott, will never learn that a funny idea and a few dangling gags cannot make a good stage comedy. Mr. Abbott, the producer of the new comedy by Will Glickman and Joseph Stein, should have been able to see that even the two-line jokes were infrequent and that the basic humorous situation in the play was written completely without the writers' consulting their hearts. The results is a painfully strained, unoriginal, play about some people who are either incredibly stupid or plain contemptible...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Playgoer | 4/21/1949 | See Source »

Consequently, at ten o'clock Sunday morning, an estimated fifty cyclists will line up at the corner of Chestnut Hill Avenue and Route 9 and race ten and one half miles to Wellesley, where unless planes are clarified rapidly, they will be greeted only by other exhausted riders, and perhaps a song sparrow...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 4/21/1949 | See Source »

...animal act is hampered by the only human member of its cast, a shricking and billous individual who will undoubted drive his canine assistants to the A.S.P.C.A.. The chorus line is a fine group of young ladies when at ease, but when in motion these girls seem to be giving a mass imitation of the mating dance of the Kodiak bear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Sporting Scene | 4/20/1949 | See Source »

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