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Word: threeway (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days, if a player got his sweat shirt damp by working too hard, it usually took him a leisurely hour in the clubhouse to change; now the men were back on the field in five minutes. The competition was threeway: 1) a crop of rookies just blooming when draft boards nipped them; 2) big-name stars, back after a year or two in service and looking for their old spots; 3) the wartime stand-ins who refused to believe all the bad things said about them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: News from the Grapefruit Circuit | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

Pearl Harbor is "a bloody monument to divided responsibility," says Colonel Knerr. But even now it is under a "threeway split command between Admiral Nimitz, the Navy district commander, and the Army airman Lieut. General Delos Emmons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Indictment of the Navy | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

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