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Word: trios (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army was outclassed last week so Harvard scouts couldn't tell much about its offense except that it was fine until it reached the line of scrimmage. This same Army team, however, trimmed Columbia in a practice tilt and has a real trio of triple-threat backs. The Crimson spent a full hour yesterday learning what to expect from Jere Maupin, Hank Mazur, and John Hatch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOTBALL SQUAD GRINDS FOR ARMY | 10/16/1940 | See Source »

...addition to Ethel's native ability, there are the superb antics of a sailor trio from the Idaho, Arthur Treacher's poker-faced buttling, and the inhuman jitterbug energy of Betty Hutton to keep the show at a lively pace. Costuming and scenery are done in the best Panamanian manner by Raoul DuBois, and the book of Fields and DeSylva is good musical comedy stock. Added up, this should be the proper formula for another Broadway hit, but in its embryonic stages the show does not yet live up to its promise. "Panama Hattie" still gives the impression of dragging...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/10/1940 | See Source »

...year ago. Singing for nickels and dimes in front of the Brown Derby and Beachcombers restaurants, picking up an occasional radio job, they soon brought on their parents. In spare moments Betty made house-to-house calls soliciting carpentry for her idle father. Other times she led her trio to nearby movie studios, pestering receptionists in the front office for auditions. Last June when Director Wood heard them, he quickly signed Betty for Rangers. Betty's sincere, naïve, yet strangely adult mind has made her as popular as the paymaster on the Paramount, lot, brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 30, 1940 | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

Veteran Fran Leo, a fast-improving Greeley Summers, speed-merchant Ray Guild, and Caleb Loring are the ranking wingbacks. Captain Joe Gardella, Bill Brown, and Mort Waldstein are a trio of good buckers, making this position as well fortified as any with the exception of the bumper end crop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 6/20/1940 | See Source »

...opposite numbers for these CBS flashes, NBC has as its permanent staff a talented trio headed by tall, cadaverous Max Jordan, veteran London representative Fred Bate, and French-born, ex-poilu Paul Archinard. Number three U. S. network, MBS, is headed by John Steele in London, by Waverley Root in France, depends on space-rate orators like veteran Newshen Sigrid Schultz in Berlin and hard-working Arthur Mann, now covering the R. A. F. Both NBC and CBS have their European correspondents on the air regularly for two 15-minute periods daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: War Babies | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

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