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Word: swifts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Bill Barclay's quintet moved out to a swift 15 to 2 lead in the first seven minutes, showing its best performance of the game, but the Terriers moved back into contention, and the teams matched basket for basket the rest of the way. Harvard led 28 to 16 at the half, and early in the final twenty minutes B.U. moved to within seven points of the Crimson, but two quick dueces pushed the Barclay five into another safe lead which it maintained thereafter...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Varsity Five Defeats Overrated B.U. 55-45, as Hauptfuhrer Tops Scorers | 12/20/1946 | See Source »

...swift skating Varsity line kept the puck down in B.U. ice during the closing minutes, with a ragged passing attack and an aggressive Terrier defense preventing them from scoring again in the third stanza...

Author: By Jay K. Welss, | Title: Puckmen Top Boston U., 5-4, On Arena Ice | 12/19/1946 | See Source »

...size of the dignities it destroys. Pantomime goes with a whack to the seat of the pants; slapstick goes with peel or pie to any section of the anatomy which presents itself; Shaw, a Mack Sennett of the Parlour, trips up the prejudices. The quality deepens till, in Swift, you tumble up the human race itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Horses, Dancers & Dolls | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

TEHRAN, December 10--Four columns of government troops began an invasion of Azorbaijan today in what may prove to be a challenge to Russian influence, and unconfirmed reports said Mianeh, 80 miles from the Azerbaijan capital, had been captured in a swift advance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Iranian Troops Enter Azerbaijan In Challenge to Russian Power; U.N. Defeats Gromyko Demand | 12/11/1946 | See Source »

Chicken & Egg. Vishinsky and U.S. Delegate Connally got into an argument over which came first: the chicken of disarmament or the egg of collective security. Vishinsky favored the chicken, Connally the egg. With a swift change to another tried & true figure of speech, Vishinsky asserted that the atomic bomb was a sword of Damocles hanging by a thin thread, and demanded that it be abolished as a first contribution to disarmament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Are We Ready? | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

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