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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Notre Dame went to Texas last week expecting to wind up a perfect season in a blaze of touchdowns. Instead, in Dallas' Cotton Bowl, it was all but charged off its All-America feet by a fiery, accurate Southern Methodist team, minus its injured star Doak Walker but brilliantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Best Team We've Met | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Coach Alfred Earle ("Greasy") Neale has no time for false modesty. He admits that his Philadelphia pro football Eagles are good-so good, he blandly says, that not a single member of Notre Dame's current glamour team could make his starting eleven. They were 1948 National Football League...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Eagles at Work | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

On Thanksgiving Day, New York University officials had ripped the sketch for a student mural off its La Guardia Hall wall because of "sharp student controversy" (TIME, Dec. 5). The mural, by thrice-wounded Veteran Harold Collins, was intended to represent One World, but some of his fellows thought it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Back on the Wall | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

The Rt. Rev. Ernest William Barnes, Bishop of Birmingham, England, seems to believe that Anglican sensibilities should be shaken well at regular intervals. Last week, speaking before the Birmingham Rotary Club, he set off another of his Episcopal cannon crackers. Sterilization of "the unfit" and the killing of "defective" babies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Crisis | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Sob Sister Browning, a veteran of five years on the Trib and currently winning more Page One bylines than any other city staffer, borrowed some red & green ankle-strapped shoes from a Trib secretary and took off her wedding ring. She bought a scarlet coat, laid on a heavy job...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Woman in Scarlet | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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