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Word: terriers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...quarter of an hour had ticked away .when out from a nearby office exploded Executive Vice President John Elliot Slater, jumpy as a terrier. He hollered: "We've got it!" American Export had got CAA per mission to go into the U. S. transatlantic air trade, hitherto the monopoly of vast, pioneering Pan American Airways. For more than a year the upstart air line (TIME, April 29) had lazed along, thinking up tasks for its skeleton staff: daily weather maps for its meteorologists to chart, constant checking and rechecking of its only plane - a Consolidated 28, which had already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Rule Atlcmtica | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...Irene Bordoni can still wink, but next to Victor Moore, the most ingratiating performer is dark, magnetic Newcomer Carol Bruce, who knows how to put a song and herself over at the same time. Victor Moore, of course, is one of those things like Strauss waltzes and wire-haired terrier puppies that only a confirmed sourpuss could dislike. His Senator Loganberry takes rank with his Ambassador Goodhue and his Vice President Throttlebottom. A dazed, roly-poly babe-in-the-wood, he is probably surprised that he casts a reflection in a mirror. He has never been better than when, dressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Jun. 10, 1940 | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...Healey, who will play at the left field spot against the Alumni, will do the honors on the mound for the Terrier contest. Jack Schwede will be available for relief...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINE TO MEET GRADS AND B U | 5/10/1940 | See Source »

...tuck ball game on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon with neither team displaying any scoring punch, but the underdog Terrier nine from Boston University finally squeezed out an unearned run in the sixth inning to finish up on the winning end of a 1 to 0 count. In an informal game, the Yardling nine downed Newton High School...

Author: By David B. Stearns, | Title: CRIMSON BATSMEN BOW TO TERRIER SQUAD, 1-0 | 4/25/1940 | See Source »

...Terrier coach Mel Collard will start Junior Carl Braun on the hill with John O'Connell catching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.U. GAME AT RIVERSIDE CHANGED TO CAMBRIDGE | 4/24/1940 | See Source »

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