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Word: carly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tories more? Hardly, since even the Tory leaders themselves were so unconfident of their party's principles that they had clutched socialism in a tepid, awkward embrace. Certainly, however, the British voter loved Labor less. A month ago, before the awakening, a TIME correspondent touring England by car ran into evidences of leaden disgust and shamed resignation. Said a Coventry bricklayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Government by Governess | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...Cripps family was long on M.P.s (Stafford is the ninth of his line to sit in the House of Commons) and lawyers (both his father and grandfather were at the bar). But young Stafford's quick mind first turned to science. He loved to take the family car to pieces and put it together again. After his schooling at Winchester, a near-perfect examination paper in science won him a scholarship to New College, Oxford, and a job on the research staff of Sir William Ramsay at the University of London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Government by Governess | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...reaction, academic or otherwise, was displayed by the two recognizable minions of law and order. Chef Alvin Randall puffed his pipe in contentment throughout, and Sergent Jim Toomey only moved into action when an abandoned Princeton car was turned into a large kettledrum by some over enthusiastic team supporters.Two of the Crimson's youngest supporters inspect a Yard Cop as he listens to a motley throng of pre-game noise-makers...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Sutlers, Gamins, Flatfoots Join Havoc Cry for Tiger's Blood | 11/8/1947 | See Source »

...Car owners are parking on borrowed time. Only through the grace of the Cambridge police department are they able to leave their automobiles on the city streets overnight without punishment. City ordinances authorize the police to ticket offending cars or even to haul them away. With a complete file of registrations on hand in University Hall and open for city use, even out-of-state owners are now within the long reach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ballot or Ticket? | 11/7/1947 | See Source »

...will take another three weeks before the University can prepare the lot. Meanwhile, the police captains are planning to crack down on illegal parking in the Harvard Square area, and as the Council itself has said: "Once they crack down, it will not be safe to leave a car on the street." If in the next few weeks, car owners are caught without parking space in the midst of a vast enforcement campaign, the blame will rest on student Council negligence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ballot or Ticket? | 11/7/1947 | See Source »

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