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Word: hairbreadth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...varsity are precarious favorites, the jayvees are even more so. Although they also are unbeaten to date, their wins have been by hairbreadth margins, and Navy, Penn, or Princeton may well turn the tables on them today. Yale's second boat is also reputedly hot; two weeks ago it beat its Navy counter part by more than two lengths, while Harvard was only able to squeeze out a deck-length win over the same Middle combination...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Crimson Crews Favored for Eastern Title | 5/14/1949 | See Source »

...writes a tattling letter, Gilliat balances the tattler's meanness with a compassionate picture of her miserable marriage. Besides endowing his work with warmth and humanity, Director Gilliat knows how to make it move; the hero's hunt through London for his wife is a series of hairbreadth misses, played at the galloping pace of a horse opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 31, 1949 | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...greatest playwright of the past 25 years, decided 500 theatrical people polled by Theatre Arts magazine: Eugene O'Neill. The best cinema writer: Robert Sherwood. The top stage performance of the past quarter-century: Helen Hayes in Victoria Regina. Running a hairbreadth second: Laurence Olivier in Oedipus. The best cinema performance: Charles Chaplin in Monsieur Verdoux. Running second again: Olivier in Henry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Bows | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

Riding the crest of a ten-game winning skein as a result of their hairbreadth 6-5 upset over Dartmouth last Saturday, the Yale hockey forces will face off against Harvard this weekend in search of their fourth Pentagonal League victory in a row. Since the beginning of their winning streak of January 15 by virtue of a 7-1 triumph over Clarkson Tech, Coach Murray Murdoch's skaters have piled up an average of 7.7 goals per game as opposed to 2.3 for their opponents...

Author: By Oliver Brooks, | Title: Sextet Faces Elis Tonight at Arena; Barclaymen Meet Undefeated Lions | 3/1/1947 | See Source »

...motivation for this hairbreadth nonsense is a $500,000 diamond necklace. Bracken gets involved only because he is a featherbrained kleptomaniac. The hoodlums keep busy because they have their workaday jobs to do. Veronica Lake is vaguely and halfheartedly associated with the hoodlums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 12, 1945 | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

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