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Word: nelsons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this phenomenon two veterans too ill for military service are chiefly responsible. So far this year the duel between Jug McSpaden (35, sinus) and Byron Nelson (32, hemophilia) is the longest stretch of consistently great golf in almost half a century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boom on the Links | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

McSpaden set the terrific pace in Los Angeles last January with six under par for four rounds. In San Francisco, Nelson did even better, with a blistering 13 under par for 72 holes. Moving eastward, the competition kept going at such high pressure that one or the other seemed bound to crack. But neither did. At the end of ten major tournaments, McSpaden had piled up a dazzling total of 69 strokes under par, with Nelson only nine behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boom on the Links | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

...Eisenhower was unswerved by the fact that Miller was a West Point classmate of his, had pitched for the baseball team on which Omar Nelson Bradley played center field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Silence is Golden | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

Heading the committee are Alexis V. Tellis, chairman of the Year Book, and William J. Rickey, business manager. Other members from Harvard include Frank Farwell, Stanley Fayman, Robert Henninger, John Hollis, George Menkes, Eliot Mover, Travis Nelson, Robert Schaeberle, and Charles Williams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Supply Corps to Dance on June 17 | 6/16/1944 | See Source »

...There is something like the mountains and the sea in John R. Mott," Professor Henry Nelson Wieman once wrote of him. "He will always be the same, very simple and a bit sublime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Two Birthdays | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

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