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Word: mite (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...track team announced last night that it has been invited to compete in the Milwaukee Journal Indoor Games on the night of March 13. The Crimson will probably enter the mite quartet of Captain Jack Richards, Alan Howe, Renny Little, and Dave Alpers. If he is in shape, Bob Rittenburg will also enter the high hurdles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINING THEM UP | 2/17/1954 | See Source »

Husband's Mite. In Hamilton, Ohio, denying charges of nonsupport, Edison Hughes was asked what he had given his family, answered, "Well, I took some wine home to settle the wife's nerves," got six months in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 8, 1954 | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

...back a clear $630,000 for a nonexistent "National Cancer Hospital." The cost of fundraising: $435,000. Another Chicago outfit raised $2,531,000 for the relief of war widows and orphans aided by Gold Star Wives of America, Inc. After fund-raising expenses were deducted, the widows' mite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Innocents at Home | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

When Lowenstein entered the game in the ninth minute it was scoreless; and when he left it after four minutes of the fourth quarter it was 42-6 with the mighty mite almost entirely to blame...

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: Jordan Faces Replacements, Possible Formation Changes | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

Hollywood's strong, silent actor Alan (Shane) Ladd, off to Spain to make a picture, boarded the Queen Elizabeth in a wheelchair after telling how he had come to break his ankle: while romping with his six-year-old son in an Ottawa hotel room, things got a mite too playful, and he tripped over a chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 12, 1953 | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

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