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Word: six (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cornell, led by Ed Grano who scored six times and Bill Emerson who scored five, proved themselves tops in every phase of the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Red Poloists Trample Crimson | 11/15/1949 | See Source »

Local sportsmen give the powerful Holworthy six a two-touchdown edge over Straus, since they shut out Mower, 47 to 0, and Mathews South, 61 to 0. Holworthy is the highest scorer in both leagues, with a total of 161 points scored to their opponents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '53 Crown Still Undecided; Lionel, Holworthy Leading | 11/15/1949 | See Source »

...Six months ago, she had worked herself to a frazzle, complicated by insomnia and jitters for which she had long been trying to doctor herself. After she had a series of temperamental blowups on the set of Annie Get Your Gun, M-G-M suspended her and tackled the expensive job of starting all over again with a new star, Betty Hutton. Judy apologized for her behavior and then entered a Boston hospital for a rest cure. Among other things, she needed to put on some weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Working Girl | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...them were distributed, he flung himself into the last gesture of his life. Rushing to the dissecting room of Pesth University, he slashed his fingers with a knife, plunged them "into the corrupt and rotting darkness" of a corpse. It was his final demonstration of a great discovery: six days later Ignaz Semmelweis died of childbed fever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Pesth Fool | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Wounded Modesty. A Budapest grocer's son, hearty, robust Semmelweis went to Vienna in 1836 to study law but soon transferred to medicine. Six years later, as a provisional assistant in the Vienna Lying-in Hospital, he witnessed the horrors that were to haunt his life and give it purpose. One out of every three women who entered the First Division ward died of childbed fever; most victims' babies died too. In other parts of the world the story was even grimmer. At Jena over a four-year period, the death toll among infection victims was 100%. Among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Pesth Fool | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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