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Word: bag (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this time Earl was sure he had it in the bag. He even demanded that Jones withdraw. "It's a sin and a shame," he croaked, "to waste $600,000 of old-age pension money on a second primary. . . . The people have spoken. Jones will never win this time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Bitin' Man | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...week, at the University of North Carolina, Psychologist Charles R. Elliott pronounced himself satisfied with two years of tests on Max Sherover's cerebrograph-a combination record-player, electric clock and pillow microphone. Elliott had selected 15 three-letter words (boy, egg, say, art, run, not, sir, leg, bag, row, ice, out, age, box, eat) and recorded them. Then he picked 40 students, all with perfect hearing, as his guinea pigs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learn While You Sleep | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...always funny," he was, to the best knowledge of the reading public, making one of his most timeless statements. In a recent issue, for example, there is a somewhat autobiographical piece by a writer who describes himself as having "the appearance of a second-hand, dejected tea-bag" and whose style is, in most respects consistent with this aspect...

Author: By S. A. Karnow, | Title: Circling the Square | 1/30/1948 | See Source »

...Oberhausen, in Germany's Ruhr, a worker hurried toward the gate of a steel mill with a bag of black bread sandwiches under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Anxiety Is Unbecoming | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...González Videla had not jettisoned the Communists and become his friend. Last week's conference was the payoff. C.I.T.'s new president knows better than to tie up with the Communists again. Says he: "The Commies are going to use every dirty trick in the bag. We are ready for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: El Mexicano | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

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