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Word: mc (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guns, will rise from the ground to chase the bombers. They will probably ride a movable radar beam kept trained on the bomber. Whether the bomber can dodge in time out of the deadly beam, or jam the missile's radio receiver before it seeks out its target, Mc-Narney does not say. The outcome of this contest between missiles and "inhabited" airplanes is anybody's guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tactics Up in the Air | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...three years running he has won 20 or more. If he repeats this season, Sain will become the first National League pitcher to string four 20-game seasons together since the great Carl Hubbell. Others who turned the trick: Dizzy Dean, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Christy Mathewson, Joe Mc-Ginnity and Mordecai ("Three-Fingered") Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jug-Handle Johnny | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...morning of the semifinals, Gonzales awoke with his left ankle sore and swollen. He paid no attention to it, waded through ex-National Singles Champion Don Mc-Neill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Indoors & Out | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...Odets' rage and revulsions are wasted: some of his Hollywood villains-including a cynical hatchetman and a ruthless cinemagnate (well played by Paul Mc-Grath and J. Edward Bromberg) are vividly caught or caricatured. Now & then, along with some "poetic" writing that is as unpleasantly conspicuous as a nose ring, a lively crack comes forth. But most of The Big Knife is as unfocused as it is violent; it is full of curses not deep but loud, of intemperate and untidy theatrics. And Castle's particular predicament is far too unusual to mean anything. He is surely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Mar. 7, 1949 | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...connoisseurs of the theatrical arts and readers of time magazine already know, Cole Porter has written the songs for a new show known as "Kiss Mc, Kate." Among those songs is one called "Another Op'nin', Another Show." It is sung by a group of actors who are about to try out a production of "The Taming of the Shrew," in Baltimore, of all places...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Another Op'nin' | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

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