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Word: playe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowded combination living room-den where wife Gertrude's furniture is pushed aside to make room for a grand piano, a harmonium and an easel, Schoenberg works at manuscripts magnified for his weak eyes. Until six years ago, he played avid tennis: "Then, suddenly, no one wanted to play with me." He realizes that his opponents knew he shouldn't be playing: his asthma is so bad that when Who's Who asked him to list his recreations several years ago "I was tempted to say 'oxygen inhaling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Destiny & Digestion | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

Winthrop broke the ice in the first period when a pass from Dave Aloian to Pete Ways netted the only Puritan touchdown. However Kirkland evened the score in the first half on a pass play from Bob Snow to Jerry Glynn which covered about fifty yards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deacons Stop Puritan Team As Eliot Wins | 11/13/1948 | See Source »

Before the "informal" wartime period, the 1942 team was without the services of its captain Don Forte for all but four games. Right and Ferto, whose one-handed pass catch had clinched the 1941 Yale game, chipped his ankle in a pre-season scrimmage and did not play a minute of football until the start of November...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Injuries Have Hit 6 of Last 7 Football Captains, from MacDonald to O'Donnell | 11/13/1948 | See Source »

...confirmed D'Oyly Carte enthusiast, J. Arthur Rank's current production of "The Mikado" will probably be a disappointment. While a play like "Hamlet" falls naturally into a movie, even after it has been dismembered and reassembled differently, "The Mikado" on celluloid somehow just doesn't seem right. Perhaps this is because musical plays are basically improbable; choruses drift on and off stage for no apparent reason, and players sing lines which would be better spoken. But on the stage no one notices these irregularities, and certainly no one cares...

Author: By E. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: The Mikado | 11/13/1948 | See Source »

...Bruins have come through with some sterling defensive play this season and at present are ranked fifth nationally in pass defense. They are also fifth in the nation on total defense, permitting only 66 points to be scored against them this year. No team has scored more than six points against Brown since the Princeton game on October 2. On offense the Bears have tallied 188 points through the air and on the ground...

Author: By John SWANTON (sports editor and Brown DAILY Herald), S | Title: Victory-Starved Crimson Digs In To Repulse Rampant Brown Bear | 11/13/1948 | See Source »

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