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Word: bour (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...Manhattan Tax Lawyer Morton Baum, chairman of City Center's executive committee (and a director of the Metropolitan Opera as well), the enthusiasm seemed to justify a little spreading out. This season Balanchine was able to add to his repertory four ballets, including Firebird and a smashing new Bourèe Fantasque premièred later in the week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Wings for Firebird | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...sales of liquor at prices above ceilings; 2) pressure-sales of wine, sherry, raw Cuban gin or Puerto Rican rum before any whiskey conies out from under the counter. In Los Angeles retailers frantically tried to switch their customers.from bour bon to tequila, which was flooding across the border because it sells for $1 a fifth in Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIQUOR: Creeping Prohibition | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

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