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Word: seat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Obviously the H.A.A. cannot be blamed for the two-seats-to-a-customer rule that it found necessary to establish. But the deadline for applications for the Yale game was some time ago. Why could not the H.A.A. have announced the 10,000 seat over-application and the two-seat rule then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 11/20/1946 | See Source »

...next best position is the dwindled cheering section, consisting of those College and post-graduate students who have not turned in their regular single-seat locations, which fills section 33 and part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Two Tickets Per Applicant' Rules H.A.A. on Yale Game | 11/19/1946 | See Source »

Homer Raymond Jones, 53, victor in Washington's First District, where voters decided that any Republican was better than Communist-line Hugh De Lacey. A kindly, stolid, small-time political seat-warmer, Jones's campaign handouts made the point: "Jones was a clean baseball player for Bremerton, hit a home run in his last game for his wife, Delia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Faces in the House | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...Mexico City, it was still the novillada (young bullfighters' season)-but the brand-new, 48,000-seat Plaza Mexico (world's largest bull ring) was jammed with aficionados. Never had they seen a novice like Joselillo (Little Joe) Rodriguez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Little Joe & the Bull | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...more violent, more & more like pure emotion. He twisted women, dogs, Greek heroes, horses and table lamps into paroxysms of rage or frustration. He built monuments of painted bones, drew "pictures" that were nothing but dancing lines and dots, made a "Bull's Head" out of a bicycle seat and handle bars. He protested the German bombing of Guernica (in the Spanish Civil War) with a massive mural whose ugliness is its strength. "What do you think an artist is?" asked Picasso. "An imbecile who has only his eyes? . . . No, painting is not done to decorate apartments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fifty Years in Front | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

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