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Word: stepped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...principally pleased to get Stanky, who had played for him in Brooklyn. Said the Lip: "Stanky'll drive the pitcher daffy. He'll drop his bat on the catcher's corns. He'll sit on you at second base, sneak a pull at your shirt, step on you, louse you up some way-anything to beat you." Stanky spoke Durocher's language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Incompatibles | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...evil deeds done in religion's name. But, with a firm belief in the basic goodness of Christianity, he fought and won his battles against evil. Unfortunately, too many of us are like William McCarthy. We see the evil in the church as a sign for us to step out and ridicule it from the outside. This is the easy way. The true Christian remains within the fold and does his best to help rid his church of abuses wherever they may be found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...which he can polish old works and plan new ones, Russian-born Choreographer Balanchine, a U.S. citizen for ten years, hopes he is on the road to a permanent American ballet company, something like Britain's national ballet, the Sadler's Wells (TIME, Oct. 17). One step in the direction of making it a "real American" ballet was the addition to the staff this season of bright, witty, U.S.-born Choreographer Jerome (Fancy Free) Robbins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Wings for Firebird | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Never before in the history of the city have the reservoirs reached so low a state nor has consumption been so high. The daily consumption of 1,145,000,000 gallons disturbed officials so much that they have warned citizens to take every possible step to cut down on the amount of water they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Little Water Shortage Expected in Hub Area | 12/7/1949 | See Source »

Watson favored the Council's revisions which "place the responsibility (for proper conduct) with the organizations, rather than with the Deans' office." He then said that the administrators want to step into the affairs of organizations only when discredit to the College is likely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Watson, Council Confer Informally On Rules for College Organizations | 12/6/1949 | See Source »

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