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Word: outsings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bob Feller's fast ball is fast. It was timed recently and registered a speed of ico m.p.h. Last year, his fifth in major-league baseball. Bob Feller won 27 games for the Cleveland Indians-a record unmatched by any other big-leaguer. He also led the American League...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cream Pitchers | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

These bold words came last week from no embittered follower of Neville Chamberlain, at outs with Winston Churchill's Government. Published in Canada's No. 1 magazine, Maclean's, they were the work of a Dominion-born newspaperman and politician, Beverley Baxter. A longtime aide of gnomelike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Beaver's Bax | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

The columnist act was born last year in the mind of Hollywood Agent Leo Morrison, who proposed it to Lolly, the logical choice. After her husband, Dr. Harry ("my favorite doctor") Martin, approved, Morrison hired Cinemauthor Edgar Allan Woolf to cook up a skit. First problem was to get actors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Be A Columnist | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Last week a civilian was chosen to direct the U. S. draft: big (6 ft. 3 in., nearly 200 lb.), incisive Clarence Addison Dykstra, president of the University of Wisconsin. Denied top place in the new Selective Service Administration was the Army's able Lieut. Colonel Lewis Blaine Hershey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DRAFT: First Conscript | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

Chief reason why NDAC has been able to thread a decisive way through Washington mazes is that its guide (and secretary) is a veteran civil servant named William Henry McReynolds. Reputed to know more about the ins & outs of the vastly proliferated Government structure than any man in Washington, leisurely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROCUREMENT: NDAC's Mac | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

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