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Word: wind (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tight man-to-man defense held the Terriers to wild shooting from the backfield and BU's abortive fast break only clicked only when Shepard put in most of his second team at the wind-up the game. Smith and guard Jim Gabler sparked the defense, Smith picking BU passes all around the basket, and Gabler effectively trapping rebounds...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Quintet Swamps BU in 86-60 Romp | 12/9/1949 | See Source »

...Debate Council will wind up its fall program with the annual home and home debate with Yale this year on the subject: "Resolved, the Communist teachers be barred from American Colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debaters Argue Yale on Banning of Red Teachers | 12/2/1949 | See Source »

...whom Koussevitzky's racy Mozart was heresy. In the B-flat Concerto, which he conducted from the piano, Bernstein achieved another tour de force for which he is famous, pacing the Orchestra with everything except his hands. Scowling, grimacing, heaving his shoulders like an asthmatic, he managed to wind himself up into every sort of contortion, but the effect was still only accuracy and taste...

Author: By E. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 12/1/1949 | See Source »

...Fulton County jury sat in Atlanta's county courthouse last week to consider the death of the famed author of Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Memories of Peachtree Street | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...blast and fiery wind spreading out from zero would strip the walls and partitions from reinforced concrete buildings half a mile away. For another half mile, steel-frame buildings of the factory type would be wrecked. Even at a radius 1½ miles from zero, the brick walls of houses would be blown down. Many people spared by the blast and the flying rubble within the three-mile diameter of the seared circle would be killed or injured by the flash of heat and radiation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Naked City | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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