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Word: overlies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Portland, Ore., Mrs. Roosevelt's first great-grandchild, three-week-old Nicholas ("Little Bear") Seagraves put on a below-par performance at an old F.D.R. sport: posing for a horde of photographers. While parents "Sistie" (White House moppet during the early New Deal) and Van Seagraves beamed over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Happy Birthday | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

The unseen but terrifyingly powerful bombardment lasted for three minutes and 20 seconds while Laughlin nursed his controls. When the machine's electrical brain reported that the prescribed dosage of 100 roentgens had been delivered to the patient, it shut itself off. "O.K.," said Laughlin, "that's it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Big Beam | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

With a Bicycle. At Ebbets Field, a restless buzz rose from the crowd as the first two Cardinals took their turns at bat. Then a slender young man, wearing No. 6 on his back, stepped to the plate. Stan ("The Man") Musial was at bat and the crowd really let...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: That Man | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: That Man | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Other winners of the week: ¶ At Chicago's Washington Park, Calumet Farm's Ponder, with Jockey Steve Brooks up, sizzled a mile and a quarter in 2:oo|-a new track record. The $66,150 he won made Ponder the turf's leading 'moneywinner of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: And Still Champions | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

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