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Word: carse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The vehicle selected to bear this man of nonviolence on his last journey was a weapons carrier. Those in charge of the arrangements, recalling Gandhi's opposition to machines, did not let the weapons carrier's motor propel it; men with ropes dragged it through New Delhi'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAINTS & HEROES: Of Truth and Shame | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

If this attempt fails, the Council still hopes to hold another drive in the spring, when cars no longer need heated garages and the trans-river walk is not so foreboding.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Seeks Parking Lot Applicants Today | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

The Merritt Parkway and most highways leading out of Boston lay buried under a six-inch blanket pock-marked throughout with yawning potholes. Jackknifed trucks and ditched cars stretched along US route 9, with busses travelling only in conveys of two.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Record Ice Blitz Daunts Southbound Traffic as Plows, Blowtorches Fail | 1/27/1948 | See Source »

Three missing-in-action cases have already appeared at the Registrar's Office with excuses for forgotten exams. As provided in faculty rulings, the three are considered to have failed. The annual stand-bys of malevolent alarm clocks and stalled cars gave way this year to a simple, "I thought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students and Tests Collide; Injuries Light | 1/27/1948 | See Source »

North Carolina's Governor Robert Gregg Cherry had automobile trouble. His stately, plump black Packard was one of the first cars to be examined under the state's new compulsory-inspection law. It flunked. Faulty lights.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Statecraft | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

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