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Word: windedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yale and Army pack the real wallop. The Elis finished second behind Michigan State in the IC4-A meet last Saturday. Jim Fuchs, a hippo-gazelle athlete, should win the shot and may also wind up first in the dash. George Wade won the IC4-A mile in 4:13, and sophomore George Appel took the pole vault in the same meet at 14 feet...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Yale Favored in Heptagonal Meet | 3/4/1949 | See Source »

Just to make sure of his point, Selznick decided to close his opus on a more tangible note than timelessness and ends with a hurricane scene that completely breaks the mood of the picture, literally winding it up on the rocks. An additional battery of loudspeakers is spotted around the theater; during the storm scene, they are filled with sounds of wind and surf. The trade calls this device Multi-Sound and it is when the wind is screaming the loudest, and everyone is wondering what has become of the fresh air, that Jenny appears for the last time...

Author: By Donald P. Spence, | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/2/1949 | See Source »

...word for what was going on. The gaunt old (65) ex-professor, who had spent 23 years with the Brookings Institution, has long been a middle-of-the-road economist who sometimes seems to be trimming his square-rigged economic sails to the Administration's wind. He neatly dodged predicting either inflation or deflation. What the country was going through, he said, was "disinflation" (a five-dollar word for burp). It was quite a different thing from deflation, he explained. Deflation means a collapse in the price structure, but "disinflation" merely takes the upward pressure off prices.* Everything would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Choose Your Own Word | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Other charges made by Commissioner McDowell, who fired Dr. Van Waters on January 11, deal with alleged violations of state penal laws, and "lax administration." The prosecution has until Friday night to wind up its case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Van Waters' Battle Comes To University | 2/24/1949 | See Source »

Columbia's basketball team acted like a fodera caught in a wind storm last night at the Arena. Every time Harvard threatened to catch the Lions, they spurted ahead and finally ended up four steps ahead 57 to 53. It was the Crimson's eleventh straight setback...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Lions Nudge Out Quintet in Arena Heartbreaker, 57-53 | 2/16/1949 | See Source »

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