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Word: spotting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...making its current appeal, PBH can no longer ask for blood on war-time grounds of glamourized patriotism. These donations will not give on-the-spot aid to the entrenched soldier who has stopped an enemy bullet; but they may very well help out a roommate or a Cambridge schoolboy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Sweat, No Tears | 3/25/1947 | See Source »

...steady job since 1941. Last spring he made a brilliant musical comeback in Rome, Milan, Paris. Last week he was found lying on a street corner just before dawn, his head cut and bruised. Two strangers in a nightclub had offered to drive him to another spot to hear some real jazz, said Dr. Klemperer, and on the way, they suddenly robbed him of $30, threw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 24, 1947 | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...Toronto, Boston, Detroit, New York, Chicago. Next week the top four will meet in the profitable (up to $2,000 bonus per player) but anticlimactic Stanley Cup playoffs. Whether or not they keep the Cup, Les Canadiens are the icemen of the year. By clinching the regular-season top spot for four consecutive years, they have won a position comparable to that of baseball's New York Yankees of the 1930s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tops on Ice | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

According to Professor John C. Bennett of Union Theological Seminary, Pastor Niemöller "now admits the social blind spot in his type of Lutheranism." It remains to be seen whether such a change is coming about in German Protestantism as a whole. Like Martin Niemöller, many another German has now learned that too much separation between church & state can be as unhealthy as too little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Social Blind Spot? | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...previous night against a Rutgers outfit which they met with even less success, the Varsity succeeded in placing only two men in leading slots. Chuck Hoelzer, stymied in his butterfly specialty with the runner-up spot, took it out on Penn's Bill Abbot in the 50-yard freestyle, with 24.7 seconds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quakers Topple Varsity Swimmers, 46-29; Freshman Five Rallies to Trip Elis, 57-56 | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

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