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Word: auctioned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...David Hotelling, 10, of Napa, Calif., realized a child's dream. He had saved enough pennies (selling Christmas cards and doing chores) to make a bid of $25 at an auction of outmoded fire equipment, drove off in a red 1926 fire engine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Apr. 26, 1948 | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

According to my knowledge there is no record of any Guernsey cow having been sold at either public auction or private treaty for any such figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 19, 1948 | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...rolled on to Omaha by bus. He flew to Buffalo Bill's old territory around North Platte, and to the cowtown of Alliance. He hung professionally over the ring of a hog auction, attended a farm picnic of hot dogs and baked beans, spoke from the top of a hotel marquee with his hair flying in the wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hubbub in Nebraska | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...plush toy rabbit, drams of perfume, clothing, and a few out-of-term textbooks will go on the block today at Signature's spring auction sale in Radcliffe Yard. Bidding on all goods will start at 11 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Signature Auction | 4/15/1948 | See Source »

Bargain. In Camp Robinson, Ark., 400 War Assets Administration huts which had found no buyers at $30 each were sold at auction at an average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 12, 1948 | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

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