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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the housing problem." By last week it had become apparent that re-election wasn't going to solve the problem, even for Harry Truman. An engineering survey of the 150-year-old White House showed that it was little better than a fire trap, so weakened by age and by stresses set up as a result of haphazard patching and alteration that it could not be made safe without major repairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fire Trap | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...age insistent on speed and convenience, and indifferent to comfort, the boats had no place. As for scenery, modern man was now conditioned to taking it in a new form, as a thin strip that flicked past, like a long, evenly unwinding tape, on either side of a concrete highway-the kind he could see without turning his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Last on the River | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...behold!" exclaimed the Sage of the Age. "Sotear, but don't Phillip your glass any more. Frank-ly, you've had too much liquor and, e-Naffziger-ettes. Furse I can see, Fasano reason why you Gant see my point. McAfee-lings are hurt and McGrath has reached its peak...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey occ, | Title: Hu Flung Sees Blue Afternoon for Yalies | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...Bingham last year when the latter offered him the head coaching job at Harvard. Instead he went to Chicago, where he spent two full days discussing the values of the Harvard job with a local leather manufacturer named Arnold Horween. "Horween had been head coach at Harvard at the age of 28, and I wanted to get his viewpoint on a young coach's chances there," Art explains...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Valpey Puts Football on Road Back | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

This was no new experience for the soft-spoken 27-year-old "baby" of the current Harvard coaching staff. He has been moving objects out of the way on the football field since the tender age of seven, when he played sandlot football in Sykesville, Pennsylvania. "You might say I got my football start in those days," Madar recalls. "It was all rough and tumble stuff, and we just pulled and hauled until we got the ball away from each other, but it was a start in the right direction, anyway...

Author: By Steve Cady, | Title: End Coach Madar Won All-American Honors at Michigan Under Valpey | 11/17/1948 | See Source »

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