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Word: cards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clutched the paper in his pocket, and, reassured, kept on up the street. He remembered when the long, heavy envelope had arrived. He'd looked at it suspiciously, noticing the return address. Dimly, in the background, he'd heard martial music playing as he extracted, in order, a small card, a large, many-itemed form, and a snide little scrap of yellow paper. It was to this last that he'd addressed wary attention; it was closely printed with a series of crisp pronunciamentos, studded with "you will," "do not fail," and "all men . . ." Its final edict was simple...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 1/24/1947 | See Source »

...late for this Christmas but worth saving for next was a news photo of Denmark's Princesses Margrethe and Benedilcte* in costume, prizeworthy in any man's Christmas card division...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Movers & Shakers | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

Parkhurst had in his possession a driving operator's license in this name, as well as a Coop credit card as "Lyons." according to Allen's bulletin issued yesterday morning...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Ex-Undergrad Admits He Is Check Looter | 1/9/1947 | See Source »

Requests from scores of TIME readers who want to bombard their friends with card-sized replicas of themselves on TIME'S cover bringing holiday greetings, announcing new offspring, from school and college annuals, etc., make a real problem for us. We are highly gratified by such requests, but, the trademark laws of the U.S. being what they are, we have to refuse permission for reproductions of TIME'S format and take action against unauthorized uses of it. During last fall's election campaign, for example, an enterprising candidate for New York State assemblyman from The Bronx headlined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 30, 1946 | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...Today, as a Hearst drawing card and a radio chatterer on the side, he earns $12,000 a year. He has traveled 350,000 miles to cover sports events. He has bombarded crooked sports promoters with thousands of yards of angry copy. His staffers resent the way he picks their brains for squibs for his column, taking their brightest gossip, but they have to admire the way the boss's column pulls in the fan mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Good, Clean Sport | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

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