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Word: auctioneers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spaewife was pinned to the mare, and eventually she was bred to an Australian stallion. Six years ago, a weedy yearling-reportedly one of her descendants-was led into an auction ring and knocked down for ?400. That was how Peter Riddle, a veteran Australian horseman, came by Shannon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Race That Wasn't | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...found the couple listening to the last half of the game at the Wellesley police headquarters waiting hopefully for a bail clerk to appear any minute, but the d---bail clerk didn't arrive until 5:30 p.m. By about 3:30 a very glum couple tried to auction off the two Harvard-Yale tickets to some very non-interested Wellesley policemen. Part of the idea was to raise bail money...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 11/27/1948 | See Source »

Club officers hope to auction off a date with the Queen, but haven't decided what the price will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Politicians Schedule Finales Tonight | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

Radcliffe opens up its big lost-and found cupboard today for the first time in a year, and will sell its unclaimed contents at an auction in Agassiz House from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lost Goods Go Today At Auction in Agassiz | 10/26/1948 | See Source »

...sale trick is the most effective one in Liberty's bag. It eliminates the need for a full-time sales staff, cuts the advertising budget way down to two or three days' concentrated ballyhoo and, above all, brings potential customers to an auction pitch where each buyer lures the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Liberty Houses | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

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