Word: unsung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slattery's Hurricane (20th Century-Fox) pins a Hollywood medal on an unsung specialty of the armed forces, U.S. naval aviation's hurricane-tracking service off the Florida coast. But it is the same old celluloid medal-thin, transparent and chipped with wear...
...Another unsung Russian genius named Glinkov "considerably forestalled" Briton James Hargreaves in inventing the flaxspinning loom. Dr. N. I. Lunin of Dorpat discovered vitamins. Professor Kataev constructed the world's first electronic television transmitter. In 1801, the self-taught genius of the Urals, Artomonov, built the first bicycle in the world's history, then pedaled the 1,000 miles from Nizhny Tagil to Moscow to prove...
Like lyric writing (for some 50 unsung songs), radio (where, after five failures, his current show-Wed. 9 p.m. E.D.T., ABC-is fattening on his TV glory), and movies (for which a plastic surgeon bobbed his nose in 1939), the theater is one of Milton's gnawing frustrations. This season, while already riding high in TV, he tried unsuccessfully to get a supporting role in South Pacific. But producers are now wooing him instead...
...average. That was not as good as Rookie Johnny Groth's .439 for the Detroit Tigers; Groth, who had been picked in spring training as the most likely candidate for rookie-of-the-year (TIME, March 28), was leading the league. But the relatively unsung Coleman was runner-up. Moreover, the Yankees had a rookie first baseman, Dick Kryhoski, who was hitting .375, and a pair-of third basemen, Bobby Brown and Billy Johnson who were belting the ball...
...front in Santa Anita's $50,000 San Felipe Stakes, Olympia was still there at the end of the seven-furlong race. But in the $100,000 Santa Anita Derby, at a mile and an eighth, he weakened in the stretch and finished second to Old Rockport, an unsung outsider. Flown back to Florida, Olympia won the $50,000 Flamingo Stakes (at a mile and an eighth), then headed for New York. A rugged, unemotional colt, Olympia seemed to thrive on traveling...