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Word: cage (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tickets will be delivered to Lehman Hall on Monday, the day before the concert, and will be sold at the cashier's cage in the Comptroller's office, starting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Will Get Concert Tickets | 10/19/1948 | See Source »

...Hobo took Tossy to the washhouse of No.1B mine. Changed into pit clothes, he walked across to the shafthead, only 55 ft. from the Atlantic shore, and rode 670 ft. down in a coal cage in less than a minute. Because the seams run far under Glace Bay, Tossy's Orphean journey was just beginning. Next came a long ride in a motor rake (a train of coal cars pulled by an electric locomotive) to a point 1,800 ft. below the sea bed. Then, on the No. 6 incline rake (a cable car), Tossy rode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NOVA SCOTIA: Of Mines & Men | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...Bird in a Cage." As soon as she was able to talk, Oksana Kosenkina knocked all the Soviet protests into a cocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The House on 61st Street | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...told police that she had been thinking of suicide ever since she had allowed the Russians to bring her back from her New York hideaway. That afternoon was the first chance she had found. Said she :"I was like a bird in a cage. I had to get out-I was struggling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The House on 61st Street | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...full 30 seconds she struggled to get the needle-sharp fangs out of her middle finger, pressing with all her strength against the cobra's locked jaws. When she had torn the snake loose and carefully returned it to its cage, she calmly instructed the photographer to apply tourniquets to her wrist and elbow told him where to find stimulants and needles. But the needles were rusty and the vials broke in the photographer's hand. "Take me to a hospital at once," she ordered. "This is serious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Creeping Death | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

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