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Word: wente (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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With breathtaking suddenness, Notre Dame went 58 yards for a touchdown and scored three more to lead 27-0 at the end of the first period. With Halfback Larry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Murder, Inc. | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Coutre running wild, and 19-year-old Quarterback "Baltimore Bob" Williams directing the attack, there hadn't been anything like it since Murder, Inc. went out of business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Murder, Inc. | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...Presbrey was good for two breaks in a row. With his wife, he was having a midnight snack at a restaurant south of the Twin Cities when three gunmen walked in and robbed the cash register of $1,700. Reporter Presbrey ran for the phone as the last bandit went out the door. He had the city desk on the wire in time to catch the final edition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: St. Paul Prowler | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...wreckage when I saw a man approaching, and I thought: 'Thank God, here is help at last.' Instead, he just leveled a camera at me, and bang! then he was gone." Presbrey's exclusive picture (see cut) made the front page of the Star and went all over the country by wirephoto. Hard-boiled Reporter Presbrey sent the girl a print of the picture and a message: "I'm sorry, but deadlines are deadlines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: St. Paul Prowler | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...friends among his more relaxed colleagues. Their grudging admiration is mixed with wonder at the chances he takes. In 1934, prowling in St. Paul, he stepped right into a gun fight between policemen and two robbers who were holding up a milk company. A policeman's bullet went through the shoulder padding of Presbrey's coat, wounded a robber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: St. Paul Prowler | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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