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Word: switches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coaches to install the new fire-horse technique. "Any club that doesn't use it," he insists, "will have its brains beaten out." It also gives coaches some jittery moments. A coach's most difficult task under the new style, says Boucher, is getting his men to switch quickly from five-man offense to five-man defense the split second that a scoring drive begins to peter out. He is frank to admit: "I'd prefer playing the old game, but I like watching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hockey's New Look | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...Yardling ice squad has been cut to 22 for today's match with New Prep, second of the season. Center Joe Kittredge and left wing Doug Anderson will probably switch positions on the first line in an effort to form a better working combination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '51 Hockey Squad Meets New Prep Today As Jayvee Quintet Plays Host to Emerson | 12/17/1947 | See Source »

...traditional Christmas switch is on again, as University students slip furtively in and out of women's shops and 'Cliffedwellers roam the haberdasheries. But no matter from what angle one looks at the situation, crowds are swarming the stores, gobbling up anything and everything that will fit into Yule wrappings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shops Packed As Yule Rush Reaches Peak | 12/16/1947 | See Source »

...Haitian Delegate Antonio Vieux spoke heatedly against partition; two days later he announced shamefacedly that his government had ordered him to switch to yes. Filipino Delegate General Carlos Romulo, on Wednesday, orated against partition and sailed away on the Queen Mary. Saturday a new Filipino delegate flew in from Washington, voted yes. Liberia, which voted no in committee, said yes in the final roll call. In the final days Arab and Jewish hopes alternately soared and plummeted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Just Beginning | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...Come to See Me." The war, and a job as president of Mutual Life, brought him back to the U.S. and to Government work. Franklin Roosevelt had never forgiven him for his political switch (Douglas also supported Willkie in 1940). Lew's mind, said Roosevelt, runs "more to dollars than humanity." But when Harry Hopkins urged Roosevelt to overlook past political differences, Roosevelt relented: "Have him come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Manager Abroad | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

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