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Word: blowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made to keep as many rooms as possible in the lower price ranges, even if those willing to pay for superior rooms must pay more than their pro-rata share. The College has an obligation to the marginal student, for whom any rise in expenses is a serious blow, and may rightfully ask those students who are in less stringent financial conditions to bear a greater share of the load...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rooms for Rent | 2/17/1948 | See Source »

After giving his nose another blow, Lee Pressman, 41, announced that he would open his own law office in Manhattan. He would also campaign for Henry Wallace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: End of the Line? | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Yesterday morning, for instance, a card-hungry horde knocked her down, stopped on her, and, to rub salt in the would, "blow a hole in my last pair of nylons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Stampede for Billet-Doux | 2/14/1948 | See Source »

Boss Anastasio Somoza smelled trouble, and his Guardia National found more scents of it almost every day. At the home of an ex-hardware merchant named Luis H. Scott, enough dynamite was found to blow the Somoza government clean out of business. That, charged the Guardia, was exactly what Don Luis had planned to do with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: I Accuse | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

There was once a Freshman who lived in a triple in Wigglesworth. The following fall he and his three roommates were moved not to a House but to a double in another Wigglesworth entry. As the final crippling blow he discovered his rent had been raised. This man-and others in similar plights-concluded there was something wrong with the room rent system. They were right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roomatism | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

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