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Word: carful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whose charges included an ostrich, a wildcat, a ringtailed monkey, four pythons and six hyenas. Across the U.S. on a lecture tour streaked Randolph Churchill, who was having hair-raising luck. While he was doing 50 on an Indiana highway a wheel flew off, but the car somehow remained right side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Wizards | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

Stripping down a car to the thousands of parts Ford buys from suppliers, Browning took a long, hard look at the pieces. That nickel-plated horn button emblem, couldn't that be replaced with a painted emblem? It could and would be. Savings: 8.9? per item; total saved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Penny Attacks | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...picture on Saturday afternoon, when huge crowds are besieging the New Haven Street Railway. Travelling in large groups, the Elis attack the waiting streetcar in flying wedge formation and contrive to place their dates in some available seat. They then retire to the outer extremities of the car and seize upon some handy appendage from which they hang for the rest of the ride. As this handy appendage is frequently the collar of another Eli who in turn is hanging over the side of the car, it is possible to make the mile and a half trip to the Bowl...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Elis of Two Centuries Shun Ways of Crimson's Radicals | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

...conductor, who swings Tarzan-style from Yale to Yale in an effort to collect his fares. The girls meekly surrender their dime, as a rule, but the male element jumps off and runs for a while (if he hasn't already been swept off by a passing car), regaining the trolley after the conductor has passed or has given the whole thing up as hopeless...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Elis of Two Centuries Shun Ways of Crimson's Radicals | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

Lullaby. In Kansas City, police, summoned by irate neighbors kept awake by a parked car's blaring radio, rushed to the car. found Owner Waldo Wilson sound asleep inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 18, 1946 | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

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