Search Details

Word: vada (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Toole, the Reds could be very hard to beat. Their infield of Frank Robinson on first (where his fielding is still a question), Johnny Temple (.306) at second, Roy McMillan at short, and the slugger Frank Thomas at third is almost equal to Pittsburgh's. GusBell, Jerry Lynch, and Vada Pinson (the best looking rookie in the league) rank high in a league filled with good outfielders. Ed Bailey is easily the best of the catchers...

Author: By Tampa JIM Benkard, | Title: National League: Pittsburgh Picked To End Long Era of Dismal Finishes | 4/10/1959 | See Source »

...subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week charged that U.S. distillers had deliberately planned the U.S. liquor drought in order to boost their profits. The subcommittee, headed by Ne vada's Senator Pat McCarran, and including such men as West Virginia's Harley Kilgore. Utah's Abe Murdock and Michigan's Homer Ferguson, accused the liquor industry of using its self-imposed program of rationing liquor to dealers as a scheme by which many rationed profits for themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIQUOR: Unnecessary Drought? | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

...From Hutchinson, Kans., started one Vada Watson, 19, blue-eyed, slender, beautiful, who won a beauty contest at the inaugural ball of Governor Ben S. Paulen. She took with her a sack of wheat-wheat harvested by Warren G. Harding on a Kansas farm less than two months before his death. She bore it to Calvin Coolidge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Feb. 2, 1925 | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |