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Word: star (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Says Lynn: "It wasn't easy to work under dad." The other players distrusted him, the fans booed him, and his father was rougher on Lynn than on anybody else. But by 1942 Lynn was one of the National Hockey League's top scorers, made the all-star team, and was popular with fellow players...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Boss's Son | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...Variable stars, says Stanley-Jones, may work the same way. When the star is in ai normal quiescent condition, its heavy fissionable atoms are too far apart for a chain reaction to get started. Being heavy, they sink gradually toward the center of the star. As they sink, they approach one another. When they get close enough, a chain reaction is set off. Its heat and radiation make the star expand until the fissionable materials in it are too far apart to react any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nature's Atom Bombs | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

Christmas Festival (Sat. 4 p.m., CBS). Two-hour all-star show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Program Preview, Dec. 27, 1948 | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...brilliant new star in the perfume world . . . to wear it is to be-Divine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christmas? What's That? | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...really the best U.S. amateur? In second place, the U.S.L.T.A. put 27-year-old Ted Schroeder, who has made himself unpopular with the officials by boycotting the national singles for the past six years. Yet he was the star of the victorious Davis Cup team. And soon after Pancho put on his new crown, Old-timer Schroeder beat him twice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The First Shall Be Second | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

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