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Word: arounders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer school student who sits studying in his Yard room two months from now, with sweat pouring down onto his book and blurring the type, with mosquitoes buzzing around his ears, and with sopping handkerchiefs tied around his neck and forehead, will not understand why Lamont Library, the College's only air-conditioned building, is closed. He will not be too impressed with the questions of finance that will prompt the administrators of the library in their meeting today. He will be hot, hot and bothered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer Reading | 5/18/1949 | See Source »

...experience. Never had he felt more perfectly in tune with his surroundings, and he made a mental note to tell his barber all about it. But no time for that now--the barbershop was closed, and more important, his aesthetic experience had been interrupted. Throwing the tie around his neck, searl fashion, he stalked out of Lamont and set off to find a good, stiff Pernod...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/17/1949 | See Source »

...many companies employers could lay the basis for lower prices by demanding and getting a higher standard of workmanship all around. Last week, a survey of 1,000 manufacturers by Mill & Factory magazine showed that 55% reported productivity on the upgrade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still in Bed | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...Majesty browsed around for an hour, while other shoppers politely made way, then left without buying anything. But Harrods, which had sold her some baby clothes for her new great-grandson a few months ago, was grateful that she had remembered the day. Watching her leave, a $24-a-week stenographer who had looked wistfully at an $80 dress and also come away without buying, sighed: "I don't think they want people like me to come into their old store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Old Store | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Baseball Commissioner Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler was not mad, just terribly hurt. The sportwriters had swung him around their heads with gay, unremitting abandon for his summary suspension of Leo Durocher over a Polo Grounds dust-up with a loudmouthed fan (TIME, May 9). In Cincinnati last week, Happy Chandler exonerated himself and "The Lip"-in that order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Happy Springs the Lip | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

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