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Word: subject (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week starting Friday, Aug. 6. Times are E.D.T., subject to change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Aug. 9, 1948 | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...Street with No Name (20th Century-Fox) is still another of Fox's well-made semi-documentaries (Call Northside 777, Boomerang!, etc.). This time the story is based on FBI files. The subject: postwar gangsterism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 9, 1948 | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...Greek rule - designed to prevent dyspepsia and headaches - that only the lightest topics be discussed at mealtimes. The conversation volleyed from the high price of neckties to reincarnation (one sprinter wanted to come back as a dog, another as a race horse). Then it lit on the most dyspeptic subject of all - track. The lean steeplechaser asked a half-miler: "Does all that sugar and dextrose you guys fill up on help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Two Minutes to Glory | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

Forbidden Subject. In Southern California, the Patton-La Beach rivalry was a high spot of every big meet. Betting odds were freely quoted in Los Angeles bars and barbershops. One night at Los Angeles' Coliseum, a record crowd of 59,661 turned out for a meet and saw Patton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Two Minutes to Glory | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

...season the subject of running was rarely mentioned in the Patton home. Mel never read the sport pages: "I might begin believing those things they write." When the afternoon paper was delivered to their neat, $35-a-month apartment on Beverly Hills' Burton Way, his wife tore out the sport section and put it away. As sensitive to excitement as a punch-drunk fighter is to bells, Patton didn't want any gongs ringing inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Two Minutes to Glory | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

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