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Word: stringings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Andre Sigourney will lay a string of victories three years long on the mats against Yale this Saturday. The sturdy captain of the Yardling wrestlers, New England 155 pound champion in 1945 at Milton, returned from Marine Corps duty in China tougher than ever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Captains Pace Yard Squads As Yale Finales Loom Close | 3/2/1948 | See Source »

...sentimental painting, and a lot of sharp and funny drawing. The drawing has lasted better. Three of her ace draftsmen, George Cruikshank, Richard Doyle and Sir John Tenniel, are the subjects of three books published last week in England (by Art & Technics Ltd.). U.S. readers, familiar with only one string of each artist's bow (like Tenniel's Alice in Wonderland), will find the drawings a wonderland of surprises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Three Aces | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...three years of football, basketball, and baseball while in college and, in 1940, played wingback in the same backfield with All-America Tom Harmon. He has served as athletic director and head football coach at Hillsdale College, Michigan, for the last two years where his terms ran up a string of 15 consecutive victories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Valpey Picks Two Assistant Grid Coaches | 2/28/1948 | See Source »

Crucial to ADA's stance is the officially-pronounced attitude toward the candidacy of Henry A. Wallace. Wallace followers are patriotic enough, in ADA's view, but both inspiration and string-pulling for the third party are based upon the international Soviet goal of destroying Continental economies in the service of Communist ascendancy to power. Recognizing the emotional lure of the Wallace symbol on issues of civil liberties and domestic reaction, ADA bases its appeal to liberals on opposition to Wallace's anti-Marshall Plan stand. Sacrificing the democracy of Western Europe, it claims, is "too high a price...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: II | 2/27/1948 | See Source »

Never quite big enough to make first string in his undergraduate days, Davy Nelson is conceded to have the inside track on the Crimson backfield coaching job. Nelson is new head coach of Hillsdale College, Michigan...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Valpey May Lure Michigan Grid Coaching Aides Here | 2/24/1948 | See Source »

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