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Word: relyes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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At Storrs, Conn, last week, the University of Connecticut buckled down to the job of trying to stop him. With two and sometimes three men guarding him, Tony did not rely solely on his trusty hook shot. He moved for the corners, tossed high-arching one-handed push shots, personally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baskets in 4/4 Time | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Jim Londos, 49, who first claimed the world's heavyweight wrestling title back in 1930, figured the phony old game was really going to the dogs: "There are too many freaks . . . too many men who rely on hairdos and perfume." Said he: "I am still champion ... I have decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 7, 1949 | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

Wine v. Potatoes. Behind the British-French argument on a European assembly lies a vast difference between Britain's and France's national way of life. The British are fighting a hard, increasingly successful battle for economic survival through planned austerity. The French have chosen a sometimes crooked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN UNION: Hare v. Tortoise | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

Her singing voice is pleasant but weak and is not (as with Ethel Merman, her partner and predecessor in this glorification of vulgarity) a thing which is funny in itself. Miss Walker must rely on her wide variety of comical walks, certain headgear which always manages to get in her...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Along Fifth Avenue | 1/4/1949 | See Source »

But the Southerners got some powerful opposition. It came from shaggy-browed Allan B. Kline, who succeeded the South's Edward A. O'Neal when he retired as president last year (TIME, Dec. 29). Farmer Kline last year raised $40,000 worth of hogs and hybrid corn on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: How High? | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

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