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Word: messer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freshmen (876)--Dyer, 178; Wolfson, 176; McCoy, 176; Manderson, 175; Messer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rifle, Skeet Man Lose in 3 Matches | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...eleventh month of war on the U.S. side, at a time when the U.S. was spending many millions of dollars south of the border, suspicion of the gringos was again on the rise. The 13th Pan American Day was approaching, and Good Neighbor oratory was in order, but Ambassador Messer smith considered it necessary to play the stern mentor. Said he, in his most impor tant speech since he took over the Embassy in early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Back to the Earth | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

...hand to sing old Scottish scolding ballads was Mrs. Lyda Messer Caudill, who says she is a hillbilly descendant of Mary Queen of Scots. Bud Oney, mighty, black-mustached blacksmith of Long Horn Hollow, fiddled Cherokee Girl, Lost Indian, other lively tunes. Youngest headliner was Bud McCoy, 4. whose family feuded bitterly for 57 years with the West Virginia Hatfields. Announcing numbers in her mountain dialect was tiny, thin-lipped Author Jean Thomas (Blue Ridge Country), the "traipsin' woman," who started collecting folk songs while she "traipsed"' over the mountains as a circuit court reporter, then founded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Singin' Gatherin' | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

There are a few other Sophs you might tab, such as the picket-runners Billings, Tobin and Messer, and the running guard, "Spike" Sisson, and Bud Cushing, a whale of a center as Syracuse will attest, and the big tackle, Anderson. But I'm just about running to the end of my list...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cornell Skeptical, Claim Big Red Squad Is Decimated | 10/8/1941 | See Source »

Since cablegrams cost about $2.50 apiece, 150,000 of them would be the equivalent of about three Messer-schmidts, according to computations emanating from the Mathematics department last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WANT A PEN PAL NAMED ADOLF? IF SO, DON'T WRITE; TELEGRAPH. | 2/19/1941 | See Source »

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