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Word: best (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small compared to the 102,000 who watched the Army-Navy game in Philadelphia the day before. But more than 50,000 applications for tickets had been turned down, and speculators had little difficulty in getting $25 a seat from fans eager to see what they considered the best football game of the year-college or professional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Giants v. Redskins | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Each team had won eight games, lost one and held one another to a 0-to-0 tie in their only previous meeting this season. The Giants, best defensive team in the league, had been beaten only once in its last 23 games. Yet they were the underdogs, for the Redskins were an awesome tribe. Led by slick Sam Baugh and Frank Filchock (who between them had completed 94 out of 160 passes) and Anvil Andy Farkas (whose ferocious running had scored eleven touchdowns), they had chalked up 235 points this season-101 in their last three games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Giants v. Redskins | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Candidates, rounded up by talent scouts, are elected to the All-America on the basis of: 1) the cheering section's reaction; 2) judgment in selecting the best psychological moment for a cheer; 3) acrobatic ability-not only proficiency in the common cartwheels, handstands and general high jinks, but also the Ritter Span, Nelson Arch, Duos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: All-America | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Week before he reopened his uncut Hamlet on Broadway, British Actor Maurice Evans was asked: "Who is the best Hamlet you've ever seen?" Prompt Evans retort: "I haven't got any mirrors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Pearl Buck), best-selling novelist, sounded off on bestsellers: "To read a book because others are reading it is no reason at all. For myself, I should like to see every best-seller list abolished, and the volume of sale of any book kept a secret, even in advertising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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