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Word: seene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Valpey broke his squad into two parts for yesterday's drill. Those who had not played on offense Saturday scrimmaged the Jayvees, while those who had seen action on the offensive against Dartmouth polished their attack against dummies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Valpey to Hold Heavy Scrimmages | 10/25/1949 | See Source »

...Bogota's plush-and-gold Colon theater, 500 blue-ribboned Conservative delegates last week nominated pouchy-eyed Laureano Gomez, 60, as their candidate in next month's presidential elections. In Colombia, which has seen little peace since the Bogota uprising of April 9, 1948, this amounted to a declaration of bitter political-if not civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLUMBIA: God's Angry Man | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Slickers & Roadsters. Benefactor Duke had put up an initial $6,000,000 to provide a new 8,000-acre campus for Durham's Trinity College (provided it changed the name to Duke). He wanted the architecture to be Gothic ("I've seen the Princeton buildings. They appeal to me"). He ordered a huge chapel with 77 stained-glass windows, a 50-bell carillon, and a tower modeled after one at Canterbury. He wanted schools of medicine, law and divinity. He planned a hospital with 416 beds, a stadium big enough for 35,000 spectators, a student union complete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tobacco & Erudition | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...Friend Irma (Paramount), as millions of radio fans know, is a dizzy, alluringly dumb blonde. Cy Howard, her CBS creator and co-author of the screenplay, has seen to it that in her first screen appearance, Irma (Marie Wilson) is just as her fans would have her. She keeps the butter in the oven, the egg beater under a sofa cushion; she short-circuits the plans of her boy friend (John Lund) and her roommate (Diana Lynn), and in general does everything in the least rational way possible. None of this is very funny and much of it is downright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Captain Herb Carey has also seen limited action because of an ankle injury, but he is expected to be running in full force today. Carey, incidentally, plays both ways, and has been doing so for four years with considerable effect...

Author: By Bayard Hoofer, | Title: Dartmouth May Make Traditional Trouble | 10/22/1949 | See Source »

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