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Word: accidentals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barring an automobile accident, football coach Art Valpey should reach here some time today, the H.A.A. revealed yesterday. "He's a pretty optimistic fellow," Carroll Gotehell commented, with a look at the falling snowflakes.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Valpey's Arrival Awaited Today | 3/5/1948 | See Source »

¶ Verl Langford of Buena Vista, Colo., named No. 1 truck driver of 1947 by the American Trucking Association, was invited to the White House and congratulated by the President for having driven a truck since 1928 without an accident.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Mar. 1, 1948 | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

The Heritage. It was perhaps a tragic accident-though its symbolism can scarcely escape a death-ridden world-that none of Father Marx's beloved children lived happily; the two daughters who survived him committed suicide. But he was to have other children. They came to him by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Dr. Crankley's Children | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

2. Make better flyers than those who have never had an accident.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Time News Quiz: The Time News Quiz, Feb. 23, 1948 | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

Dr. Lawson figured that J-type people are visually "blacked out" during 11% of the time they think their eyes are open. He believes that blinking is responsible for many a misread scientific instrument, many a missed tennis ball, many an auto accident.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Blinks & Hisses | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

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