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Word: bus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tomorrow afternoon the musicians will travel 20 miles by bus and car to the Tedesco Country Club at Swampscott to present a concert with numbers ranging from Beethoven's Second Symphony to a homoruos Shostakovitch polka...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pierian Sodality Not 'Long-Haired' But Members Enjoy Music Making | 12/7/1946 | See Source »

Eight miles west of Pincher Creek, Alberta, which had 36 in. of snow, 40 people spent a shivery night in a snowbound bus. In Cardston, Alberta, Mrs. Andrew Fulton took a worried look at snow-clogged roads, telephoned her husband in Lethbridge and said she hoped he would try to get home by Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: The Iceman Cometh | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

Death rays missed the bus for World War II. But the U.S. Government took them seriously enough to engage a first-rate engineer, Dr. Albert F. Murray, to examine all suggestions. Recently Dr. Murray told of his experiences with the death projectors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Death Rays Deferred | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...learned his bookkeeping as a federal bank examiner, got his financial backing through his war job as a drill-press operator in Consolidated-Vultee's San Diego plant. On the next machine was Charles Silverman, who had always made money fast (he sold his Boston-New York bus line in 1929 for a fat price), but had not hung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SMALL BUSINESS: Mail-Me-Monday | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...Bus. In Garden City, Kan., John Lavore, a passenger on a snowbound bus, struck up a conversation with Passenger Thelma McLean, talked to her two nights in a row, next day married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 25, 1946 | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

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