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Word: put (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Turns, a carminative, Horace Heidt's Musical Knights went out in front with a burp. During Turns' Tuesday night half hour, a wheel of fortune is ceremoniously spun several times, eventually coming to rest on a telephone number somewhere in the U. S. A call is put in for the unnamed subscriber. The band plays on, but when the phone is answered, Announcer Ben Grauer shouts "Stop, stop, Horace!" When Horace stopped the first week, Grauer called into the telephone of Frank J. Drouin, a wood carver of Andover, Mass.: "Sonny, get your father to the telephone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Rainbow's End | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...policy and my practice ever since he started to run for office to defend him when I thought he was right (and I submit that nobody ever defended him better), and to criticize him when I think he is wrong. ... I will continue to do that until they put me in Alcatraz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Chance to Heckle | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...dying for. Some wives perform at the Garden too (almost all rodeos have women's bronc-riding contests). But the girl who made even the cowboys sit up-and take notice last week was a rich Texas rancher's daughter, svelte, 17-year-old Sydna Yokley, who put on as spunky an exhibition of calf roping as has ever been seen east of Powder River: throwing and tying a calf twice her weight in about 40 sec. (topnotch calf ropers rarely do it in less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Career Cowboys | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Administrator Williams promptly put the University on a strict six-months' probation, refrained from blacklisting it entirely only because the University's new board of supervisors and Acting President Hebert appeared to be making an honest effort to clean house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kickback | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...Pittsburgh, the remnants of Pitt's 1938 Dream Team (minus Goldberg, Stebbins, Chickerneo and Coach Jock Sutherland) that had been painstakingly put together by their new coach, Charley Bowser, displayed some sparkling aerial tactics that bombed West Virginia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Oct. 16, 1939 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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