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Word: rufus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only other Eli regulars in the Class of 1951 are quarterback Stu Tisdale, end Warren Gant, and tackles Walt Clemens, Rufus Phillips, and Joe Finnegan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Football Team Chooses Quackenbush 1950 Captain | 11/22/1949 | See Source »

...when he attended the Old Presbyterian Church in Washington he was always escorted to Abraham Lincoln's pew. ¶ Sir Cecil Spring Rice (1913-18), the World War I Ambassador, so supercautious that he dared make only one public speech in his five years in the U.S. ¶ Rufus Isaacs, Lord Reading (1918-19), the fabulous genius of finance and the law who rose from cabin boy to England's Lord Chief Justice and Viceroy of India. Before he became Ambassador Lord Reading had served his country well in the U.S. The story goes that he asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHANCELLERIES: Some Person of Wisdom | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...last day, as amazed as anybody at their success, two dark horses met as finalists. Rufus King and Charlie Coe had grown up nine miles from each other across the Texas-Oklahoma line, but were playing golf together for the first time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Upset at Rochester | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...applicant at the Chance Vought Aircraft plant at Grand Prairie, Tex. filled in his name on a company form, "Jones, Rufus." The next line read, "alias or otherwise known as." Jones wrote, "Shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Mar. 14, 1949 | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...RUFUS B. McCALL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 6, 1948 | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

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