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Word: setti (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Notre Dame, upset by Wisconsin after a high-scoring start, was touting a San Francisco sharpshooter named Kevin O'Shea, said to be the best West Coast prospect since Stanford's great Hank Lui-setti. U.C.L.A.'s Davage Minor was being talked about as the best Negro player in basketball history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Whiz Kids, Grown Up | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

When Faustina Setti, 50-year-old frugal spinster, plunked down her savings (30,000 lire) on the promise that the poetess would find her a mate, Mona Leonarda proffered a glass of drugged wine, then felled the spinster with a hatchet, chopped her into nine pieces, and kept the change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Copper Ladle | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

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