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Word: baying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Chandler, 20 year old quarterback from Bay Village, Ohio, will captain the Princeton varsity football team in 1950, it was announced last night at Princeton's annual football dinner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chandler Tiger Grid Captain | 11/30/1949 | See Source »

With the backing of the National Geographic Society and the help of the Defense Research Board of Canada, Dr. Pomerantz launched high-flying balloons from Churchill on Hudson Bay. At this point of feeble earth magnetism, Geiger counters attached to the balloons found what Dr. Pomerantz was looking for: cosmic rays with only 100 million volts of energy. Such rays would be much too feeble to reach the earth from outer space if they had to break through the magnetic field attributed to the sun. Therefore, Dr. Pomerantz announced last week, the sun must be bare of permanent magnetism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: No Magnetic Field? | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...fever pitch that he first showed more than 50 years ago in his first auction, when he sold a $20 gold piece for $100. In his galleries the hammer has swung on such fabled items as the fifth and final manuscript of the Gettysburg Address ($54,000), the Bay Psalm Book, first book published In the U.S. ($151,000), the manuscript of Alice in Wonderland ($50,000), and a lock of George Washington's hair. His biggest sale was in 1928, when Lord Duveen, British dealer and collector, paid $360,000 for Gainsborough's The Harvest Waggon. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIAGE TRADE: The Stiff Arm | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...warehouses of Back Bay, yellow chrysanthemums fester in obscurity. Not a single Harvard student was jailed in a riot last night. Three Radcliffe girls will got without dates this evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's a Week Without any Weekend For the First Time Since Summer | 11/26/1949 | See Source »

...doubted that the Buzzards Bay crash involved Moses, because it had occurred at about 4:50 p.m. But the Sunapee crash came at about 6 p.m., late enough for Moses to have arrived in the area, had he strayed off his course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman's Plane Overdue; Search Parties Scour N.E. | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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