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Word: card (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lift your skirt just a little higher there, queenie" is the most used query of CRIMSON photographers. The reply is almost always in the affirmative. It seems that the combination of camera and press card melts females at sight and has ever been known to disarm a dean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Vernal Competitions Dawn | 2/25/1948 | See Source »

After graduation, he joined the editorial staff of an encyclopedia where he developed the card-file memory and catch-all curiosity that are often watermarks of the great essayists. Shifting to the New York Evening Post as editorial writer and columnist, Strunsky became editor of its editorial page by 1920. When Cyrus H. K. Curtis bought the paper and started telegraphing editorials 'from Philadelphia, Strunsky "stepped into the subway one day and came on uptown" to the Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Is That So? | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Undergraduates ponder quite a bit before they pick a square card for a round girl. Miss Jones statistics reveal a clear split, within individual purchases, between Sentiment and Joke cards...

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

...immediately turns around and grabs another one back. Despite his actions, his motives are simple, and such a circuitous route accomplishes a definite purpose. For with the present acute side-street congestion, the subterranean gambit is the safest way to cross Massachusetts Avenue and still keep a Bursar's Card intact. By entering the kiosk opposite Hayes Bickford and emerging in the shadow of Lehman Hall the Cautions Upperclassman neatly sidesteps all traffic, and loses no shoelaces in the bargain. A problem any time, the traffic hazard has probably increased with the added dangers of treacherous ice. Concentration on maintaining...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hop, Skip, and Hope | 2/14/1948 | 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 »

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