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Word: shots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This filmed and televised account of the war in Europe as Eisenhower saw it is the first public showing of thousands of feet of film shot on the battlefronts of World War II by combat and civilian cameramen and hitherto withheld for security reasons. It will be presented in 26 two-reel episodes of 20 minutes each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 14, 1949 | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...night she announced that she knew a medicine which would induce an abortion, smilingly gave Deliphene a handful of sleeping pills. When the pretty widow passed out, Martha directed Ray to do something about her. Ray got a .45-cal. pistol and shot her in the head. They dug a hole in the basement, dumped her in, and cemented up her grave. Deliphene's baby cried noisily and refused to be comforted. Two days later Martha took her into the basement too, and held her head in a tub of water until she died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Big Martha | 3/14/1949 | 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 »

...putting only one man on him, Lavelli scored 40 points (next time Princeton switched its defense, put two men on Tony and upset Yale 47-45). When Williams tried guarding him with one man, he racked up 52. No one had so completely mastered the one-handed hook shot, flipped while taking a stride away from the basket, as Tony Lavelli. His detractors pointed out that he was slow afoot and weak on defense, but Yalemen replied: "All Galli-Curci could do was sing." Tony Lavelli could shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baskets in 4/4 Time | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Three of Harvard's six third period tallies came within the opening four minutes. Bill Garrity caught Tiger goalie Chuck Callanan off guard at 0:49; Lew Preston eased in a diagonal shot at 1:13; and Huntington in the goal mouth poked in the first of his three goals on a pass from Dave Abbot...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Harvard Six Defeats Princeton, 8-6 | 3/10/1949 | See Source »

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