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Word: minored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury to tell what he knew about the revival of racketeering in Kansas City. Six thousand non-diners watched and applauded from the flag-bedecked balconies. An army of harried waiters served 3,000 tenderloin steaks without allowing more than minor peripheral cooling to set in-no mean achievement since all had come from the kitchen of the Muehlebach Hotel, three full blocks away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Holiday at Home | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Harvard's football minor leaguers have started working out on soldier's Field; the seven teams of the inter-house football league are pointing towards their season's openers one week from today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Gridders Begin Drills | 10/6/1949 | See Source »

...England had its last major quake in 1755, after which the ground stayed pretty quiet until about 1920. Since then, the earth's crust in this area has shown a tendency to come to life, Leet said, with an average of five or six minor quakes a year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Maine Quake Shows Future Trends -- Leet | 10/5/1949 | See Source »

Recurrance of frequent minor earthquakes in New England in the last 30 years after a 150 year lapse leads geologists to believe that local tremors will steadily increase both in frequency and in force, Leet said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Maine Quake Shows Future Trends -- Leet | 10/5/1949 | See Source »

...that the Addis-Jethroe deal provided enough revenue for Ricky to be able to write off the losses of last fall's unfortunate venture into the All-America football conference. The loss on the football Dodgers in 1948 has been conservatively estimated at $300,000. And Rickey got six minor leaguers to boot (whose names will be given on October...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 10/4/1949 | See Source »

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