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Word: thrillers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appropriately offer. But this week Republic was ready to offer another, 1941-style. She is beauteous Frances Gifford, a 22-year-old, blue-eyed brunette, somewhat scratched and bruised from two months of grappling with pythons, scrambling off sacrificial altars, evading avalanches and poison arrows for the 31-reel thriller Jungle Girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cliffhcmger | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

...important research on sound and color films. In 1899 he made for Edison the first story film when he produced a 500-ft. subject called The Life of an American Fireman. Four years later, in the wilds of Essex County, N.J., he made The Great Train Robbery, first Western thriller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 12, 1941 | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

...closest the visitors came to victory was when tiny Sid Bull won the two-mile rum and tied up the meet at 36-all. It was the afternoon's thriller with the favored Bull taking the lead from Bob Jay on the second lap. Jay clung to his heels throughout the next six turns and on the final back stretch made his bid. They ran the stretch neck-and-neck but at the fast curve Bull's long, smooth stride wore down his opponent and Bull cut the string ten yards ahead...

Author: By J. ROBERT Moskin, | Title: Underdog Cindermen Defeat Big Green; Batsmen Slug Way to Princeton Victory | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

Fifties Stage Another Thriller...

Author: By John C. Bullard, | Title: Varsity Boat Shows Tigers Open Water | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

...sprinter Zeimetz will meet Ives and Pirnie in the century, which promises to be the season's super-thriller. Not only is Zeimetz himself enough to watch but this will mark the first meeting of the two Harvard dashmen in the same heat...

Author: By J. ROBERT Moskin, | Title: Mikkola Tests Novices in BAA Match Today As Warm-up Preparation Prior to Dartmouth | 5/3/1941 | See Source »

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