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Word: burstingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their husbands' skill in electioneering, were either unfitted, disinclined or too poor for the expensive game. Young, dark-eyed Mrs. Grover Cleveland was the last White House mistress to exert social dominance (she frowned on the bustle and the bustle disappeared). The White House experienced a brief, last burst of gaiety when "Princess Alice" Roosevelt (now the widow of Speaker Nicholas Longworth) made her debut there and was serenaded wherever she went with Alice Blue Gown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Widow from Oklahoma | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Harvard got off to a good start, pulling to a four point lead in the opening minutes. A burst of life from the Quakers, however, soon put them ahead where they stayed until the final buzzer. HARVARD (63) g f p Rockwell, lf 2 0 4 Gabler 0 0 0 Bramhall, rf 0 1 1 McCurdy 5 2 12 Prior, c 8 2 19 Smith 3 2 8 Covey, lg 3 2 8 Gannon, rg 1 0 2 Crosby 0 0 0 Davis 2 2 6 Petrillo 1 1 3 Total...

Author: By Albert J. Feldman, | Title: Penn Quintet Hands Varsity 15th Straight Defeat, 78-63 | 3/2/1949 | See Source »

Residents of Thayer Hall's Middle entry were temporarily deprived of lavatory facilities late Monday night when a main burst, flooding the basement floor with over a foot of water...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thayer Flooded | 2/23/1949 | See Source »

Fugitives from Nanking and Shanghai snarled and haggled their way through Canton's grimly thorough customs inspectors, then burst into a boom town. Canton this week was Reno and Juarez, Galveston and Eldorado-all wrapped up in dazzling, neon-splashed tapestry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Exile In Canton | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

Most of the seething has been on Dr. Van Waters' behalf. When Commissioner McDowell announced on December 27 that he was going to fire her, public sentiment mounted quickly and burst forth in the open hearings held before McDowell in the State House from January 13 to February 8. Most of the spectators were strong Van Waters partisans and didn't try to suppress their feelings, it looked to them as though the case was a shameless example of political muggery, for the defendant had a long and brilliant record in reformatory work; she was internationally famous for progressive techniques...

Author: By David II. Wright, | Title: Six-Month Fight Ends In Van Waters Ouster | 2/16/1949 | See Source »

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