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Word: adds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Waving red railroad flares, the marches set fire-to leaf-piles and maple trees to add to the gaiety, and chant the procession onto "Nas-sau Street!" As the crowd, now 1000 strong, juggernauts hand-in-hand down the thoroughfare, the band leader cake-walks and a masquerade tiger polkas with random dates...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Princeton: Hard Work and Rah-Rah | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

Nowadays Nassau men waste afternoons in chem labs inventing newer and louder fireworks to add to the nightly decibels. One of their concoctions almost blew the foot off a proctor last year when he tried to toe it into a neutral zone...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Princeton: Hard Work and Rah-Rah | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

...tariffs, which add about 15% to the price of dutiable goods, should be reduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Two Billion a Year | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...cooperation of members with wide differences of political sympathy, a range that in U.S. politics would extend from left-wing New Dealers to Senator Taft. There is no majority party, and for two years, the Communists, who have a plurality, have not been represented in the Cabinet. To add to the difficulties, the three parties in the center coalition, the Socialists, committed to a planned economy, the Popular Republicans, drawing support from Catholic trade unions, and the Radicals, devoted to private enterprise, are split on a whole series of issues...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...just a little more than routine. Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten, though uninspired, still show a high degree of polish and workmanship. And the same can be said of Alfred Hitchcock, who directed the picture. The latter is responsible for a few deft touches, but did little else to add artistic interest...

Author: By Edmond A. Levy, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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