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Word: zone (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only fanfare that attended the first Any Questions? program last January was the moan of sirens and the smash of explosives. BBC had been bombed; the producer of the program was trying to get his family out of a danger zone 200 miles away; it was a wet, cold, angry evening. At an emergency underground studio arrived Expert No. 1: wild-haired Professor Julian Huxley, fresh from the Zoo, where he had been seeing to the safety of tigers. Expert No. 2, Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, clumped in on loud-nailed boots, carrying a vast haversack. Expert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Air Brains | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

Alaska 2, Argentina 9, Australia 2, Austria 11, Belgium 1, Bermuda 2, Brazil 4, Bulgaria 1, Canada 51, Canal Zone 2, Chile 1, China 47, Colombia 6, Costa Rica 2, Cuba 4, Czechoslovakia 13, Denmark 2, Dominican Republic 1, Egypt 1, England 22, Finland 2, France 12, Germany 41, Greece 5, Guatemala 2, Haiti 1, Hawaii 21, Hungary 3, India 1, Italy 6, Jamaica 1, Japan 8, Lithuania 1, Luxembourg 1, Mexico 6, New Zealand 1, Norway 4, Panama 3, Paraguay 1, Peru 10, Philippine Islands 8, Poland 2, Puerio Rico 10, Romania 3, Russia 4, Scotland 1, South Africa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Increases in Foreign Enrollment; Total Now 356 Representing 37.4% Addition | 11/28/1941 | See Source »

Forte, playing an inspired game despite the loss of two teeth, ended an outstanding season Saturday with another of his spectacular touchdown catches in the end zone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eight Men Eligible For '42 Grid Captain This Afternoon | 11/25/1941 | See Source »

Harvard will do light opera, and the Yales will chant songs from the torrid zone, which they picked up on their two month's tour through South America last summer. But, reminiscent of early choral years, both groups will sing the lusty notes of traditional football songs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard, Yale Glee Clubs To Sing Tonight | 11/21/1941 | See Source »

...with the punt, the pass, and the prayer. Even if I were to do years of graduate work around Harvard I would never be able to efface from my memory the happy thrill I received long years ago when Henry Wood dropped a crucial pass in the Michigan end zone, giving the victory to the maize and blue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 11/21/1941 | See Source »

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