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Word: stubs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first Jap casualties was a four-motored patrol plane, shot down by a stub-winged Grumman Wildcat. From then on, the August sky was filled with U.S. planes and the bombers and fighters of the enemy, wheeling around each other in no-man's-cloudland while again the opposing surface fleets never once came in sight of each other on the broad ocean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: No Peace in the Solomons | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

...Bursar's cards, if your stub is lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senior Album Distribution | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

Coach Ossie Cowles will start Jim Olsen at the pivot position, with George Munroe and Bob Myers at the forward positions. At guard will be Stan Skaug and Captain Stub Pearson. Munroe and Olsen are first and second in the league individual scoring race...

Author: By A.edward Rowse, | Title: HOOPSTERS SET TO FACE SCALP-SEEKING INDIANS | 2/7/1942 | See Source »

...victory also had its sad aspect when little Joe Romano got the worst of a struggle for the ball with Captain Stub Pearson of the Indians. The flashy forward tore a ligamont in his knee near the end of the first half and will be out of action for the next three or four weeks. He was treated for the injury Saturday night and will be treated again today...

Author: By Bill Elser, | Title: Five Upsets Dartmouth, 49-36 | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

...blaze between the double flooring of the building was discovered to be the cause of the smoke which a few minutes earlier had seeped through the ventilating system and caused the alarm to be turned in. Damage caused by the "conflagration," believed to have been caused by a cigarette stub, was slight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clanging Fire Apparatus Interrupts Sever Hall Work | 11/25/1941 | See Source »

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