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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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To the young black bull, whose whole world had been the unpeopled, machine-less range, the two jeeps were a startling sight. When the jeeps came through the gate, the bull glared suspiciously and trotted off across the wide pasture of Mexico's La Punta, the world's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Home of the Brave | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

Cinemogul Darryl Zanuck, off to the Riviera, looked forward to some hobnobbing with the international set. "I like them," he told a columnist. "They don't talk show business ... In fact, most of them never saw a movie and think a movie is something you see through a peep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Native Customs | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

As he trotted onto the field at Boston's Fenway Park for the first of a three-game series with the Red Sox, DiMaggio was far from mid-season physical condition, but a load had been taken off his mind and he seemed to feel nine feet tall. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Comeback | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

Assault, 1946's Horse of the Year, and fourth highest money winner of all time ($668,020), failed in one comeback attempt last season and was retired to stud on Texas' 875,000-acre King Ranch. When he was found to be sterile, his ailing front leg was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Comeback No. 2 | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

It was the first race for both Rob Lawrie (46) and Dr. Dick Parker (48), who took turns driving the Lawrie family car over the winding eight-mile course throughout the 24 hours of the race. Only 19 of the 49 entries finished. One generous French driver, Henri Louveau, threw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baptizing the Family Car | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

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