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Word: scotts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead, the curtain had gone up on a slow first act in which Speaker Sam Rayburn and Majority Leader Scott Lucas had run off one or two minor legislative routines. The pace should have been brisk; it was slow, and as the act proceeded, it got slower. That could be explained by the necessity of getting things organized. But the author, for one, believed that the trouble might be deeper than that. Last week he sailed on stage to charge that someone, in fact, had rewritten part of his show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Whose Show? | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...Senate could limit debate on any motion or measure. Southern Senators, well knowing that this would spike their guns in the civil rights fight, were set to filibuster the anti-filibuster rule to death, and Harry Truman knew it when he gave his order to Senate Majority Leader Scott Lucas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: To the Bitter End | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Interference, with Raymond Massey and Zachary Scott...

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

...prevented recognition of the record, but Sholtz will get another chance tomorrow--throwing from an official, ground-level board at Briggs Cage. "Sholtz is capable of throwing 63 or 64 feet," claims Sam Felton. Other possible event-winners for Army are Black Jack Hammack in the 600, and Win Scott in the broad jump. Both Army and Yale have swift one-mile relay teams, and the result of this event may decide the meet...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Yale Favored in Heptagonal Meet | 3/4/1949 | See Source »

...Paris, 19-year-old Harvard Freshman Dick Button gave twelve rivals a lesson in the art of figure skating, won the world's championship for the second year in a row. The women's champion, successor to the throne vacated by Canada's Barbara Ann Scott (now a pro): Czechoslovakia's winsome, 17-year-old Alena Vrzanova...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Citation's Shadow | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

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