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Word: stops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kirkland's flashy new uniforms failed to stop a five-run Elephant uprising in the bottom half of the sixth, after Charly Senay's towering triple to right with the sacks full of Deacons had put them out in front, 4 to 3. Eliot's third hurler of the day, Bill Foster, jughandled his way to a decision over Kirkland's ace rightbander Sam Bush, shelling him from the mound personally with a two-run double in the explosive sixth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Nine Whips Deacons 8-4, Ties For League Leads | 5/6/1947 | See Source »

...last stop abroad, Wallace had gone to Paris. His daily diatribes against the Truman Doctrine had already made him the nearest thing to a hero that Communists can make of a nonCommunist. Even his old friend Eleanor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Only a Progressive | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

From his exhibitions, movie shorts and lectures, Andy Varipapa earns about $25,000 a year. His advice to the nation's 18 million amateur bowlers: the approach is the most important thing, four even steps with no sudden stop when the ball is released (though he himself, an exception to his own rules, takes five); the arm should swing up as if the bowler were throwing it up to shake hands with someone; the eyes should not be on the pins but on a point at the foul line where the ball will first touch. But there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Greatest | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...Homestretch (20th Century-Fox) canters in Technicolor through the not particularly fascinating vicissitudes of a raffish racing man (Cornel Wilde), his Back Bay bride (Maureen O'Hara) and his somewhat Bohemian girl friend (Helen Walker). Miss O'Hara wants Wilde to settle down and stop living out of Miss Walker's pocket; she also tends to misunderstand the free-&-easy way these old friends kiss each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing May 5, 1947 | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...rain, and a dearth of wind failed to stop the Yacht Club Saturday as it sailed to a 50 to 38 win over the Yale dinghy team on the Thames at New London...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Putnam Leads Crimson Sailors In 50-38 Win Over Yale Tars | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

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