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Word: balled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assassins. But neither public surprise nor superstition dampened Mitsumasa Yonai's confidence. He felt sure that by inventing a few metaphors neat as chopsticks, by continuing to mouth nebulous phrases about the New Order and completion of the China Incident (taking steps meanwhile to prolong it), by playing ball with the Army-in short, by emulating most of his recent predecessors-he would make as good a Premier as the next fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Son of a Samurai | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...whole the entire team played creditable ball throughout the game although there were no exceptionally bright individual stars. Ed Buckley and Bill Webber put on a show of long range shooting in the second half to rival Cobb and Ingley and garnered 10 and 8 points to lead the quintet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: QUINTET DEFEATED BY BULLDOGS, 52-42 | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

Trailing swimming come the other 15 activities in the following order: squash, crew, special corrective exercises, basketball, track, hockey, fencing, boxing, wrestling, tumbling, volley ball, miscellaneous activities under doctors' care, gymnasium, polo, and managers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimming Again Rates Tops Among Sports of Freshmen | 2/27/1940 | See Source »

...Collyer, brother of Cinemactress June Collyer. The episodes are produced in Manhattan by Superman, Inc., recordings expressed to stations using them. Superman has a sound effect about every four lines. For many of his righteous crushers, jumping on various sized berry baskets suffices. For the disintegration of a steel ball bearing in an episode recorded last week, the sound men finally got the oomph they wanted by tossing a dinner plate in the air, busting it with a hammer on the way down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: H-O Superman | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...late a run of foul California weather has dashed Ouida Rathbone's efforts. It began with her Charity Ball last December. The project was sumptuous. Pièce de résistance was to have been an Alpine scene re-created with real snow in the subtropical palm gardens of the Beverly Hills Hotel. Afternoon of the party the rains came. What with this disappointment and that, by 7 in the evening Mrs. Rathbone was in a state of nervous collapse and could not take part in the festivities. But her guests had a high old time inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Folies-Bergere | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

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