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Word: witt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cable, and other chair fixtures, said Fordney, were out of proportion to their actual size. To illustrate his points, Fordney dressed an aide in death-house garb, seated him in the chair and had his picture taken. Nevertheless, the Herald-American's Executive Editor George A. De Witt insisted that his photo was genuine, but he refused to explain how it was made. Said he: "Why explain it? There may be more executions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Death-House Hullabaloo | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...junior varsity football team completes its four-game schedule at New Haven this afternoon when it meets, of all people, the Yale jayvees. Kickoff time on De Witt Cuyler Field...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: JV Grid Contest Will Be Tossup | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

...Ages. Frost's first two books, A Boy's Witt and North of Boston, came out in England first; published soon after in the U.S., they had made him famous before his return in 1915. They were masterly first books; the poet's own obscurity had delayed them until he was almost 40, his early experience digested, his resolutions tempered, his vanity under control, his craft long practiced and well in hand. He had wrought and sweated to make himself intelligible, and had done it well enough by that time to know that the results would last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Intolerable Touch | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...HAVEN, Conn, June 20--It was 1948 in reverse in De Witt Cuyler Field today. Last year, when Yale had a chance for the Ivy League crown, Harvard's Ira Godin shut out the Elis. This afternoon the Crimson has a chance to tie for the League crown for the first time since 1936, an opportunity which was ruined by Yale's 3 to 0 victory...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Yale Thwarts Crimson's League Title Bid With 3-0 Victory | 6/21/1949 | See Source »

...write songs for a living. He had only one big hit, Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May?, but he made a million friends in Manhattan. In 1912, Jimmy married his sweetheart, Janet ("Allie") Allen, to a medley of "Here Comes the Bride" and Witt You Love Me in December? All his life a 10 o'clock scholar, Jimmy was more than two hours late for the wedding. Two years later, after having served as an assemblyman, Walker was elected to the state senate, and later became the senate's Democratic leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mr. New York | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

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