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Word: cupful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Saturday after Christmas, has become as red-letter a date on the U. S. racing calendar as the opening of Belmont, Pimlico or Saratoga. Santa Anita, despite its rich purses, has not had the winter field to itself. Florida's Hialeah Park, with its $50,000 Widener Cup race, gets many of the East's best horses. This week, when Santa Anita opens its seventh season, for the first time it will face competition from a track in its own neck of the woods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Golden Gate | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

Married. Peggy Scriven, jaunty, snub-nosed Yorkshirewoman who played on two of England's Wightman Cup tennis teams; and Frank Harvey Vivian, R. A. F. officer; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 9, 1940 | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...season by losing to Harvard (28-to-0), the Yale lightweights, winning all but one of their games, finished in a tie with Penn for the league championship-Yale's second leg on the seven-year-old Sanford Trophy. Princeton, with two-and-a-half legs on the cup, finished fifth. Lafayette, undefeated and untied in varsity play this year, failed to win a game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Nifty Fifties | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...conduct his own little "investigation" of the strike this next week. The public is being treated to the disgusting spectacle of a tragi-comic feud between the F.B.I. and the laurel-laden Dies Committee, over which of the two can conjure up the biggest bogey, with the tin cup of hysterically patriotic approval going to the winner. Chief among the side-line rooters are our patriotic business men who stand in high-minded solidarity in decrying any labor activity today as sabotage of the defense program. The press, with its usual uncanny feeling for the side of shinning truth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LABORING FOR DEFENSE | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...prefer being murdered to murdering," said Flora Robson, artful and fiendish poisoner in "Ladies in Retirement," as she balanced a cup of tea and chatted causally in the Lowell House Common Room yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flora Robson Dislikes Murdering, But Finds Greatest Pleasure in Acting Tragic Parts | 11/7/1940 | See Source »

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