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Word: carse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus another U.S. badman was sentimentally memorialized last week in a ballad freshly recorded for the jukebox trade. Carl Shelton, a country gunman like Jesse James, once held the rackets of all downstate Illinois in fief. His Prohibition Era battles with other gangs took a toll of more than 40...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: He Left His Dear Old Mother | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

To British motorists, the Government's ending of the "basic petrol ration" last fall had seemed the last heartbreaking straw in the load of enforced joylessness. Except for business and in hardship cases, they would not get one drop of gas for their cars. Even "basic" had been skimpy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: How Basic Is Basic? | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

Nearly 2,000,000 Britons signed protest petitions which were solemnly lugged into the House of Commons by the bale. Labor M.P.s uneasily totted up the probable number of angry voters: owners of Britain's 1,920,000* private cars and 500,000 motorcycles, probably 6,000,000 other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: How Basic Is Basic? | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

* In the peak year (1939) Britain had 2,034,000 private cars. The U.S. in 1947 had more than 30 million.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: How Basic Is Basic? | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

He will ask the College to place parking contracts in all registration envelopes next month, in an effort to make application as easy as possible. The committee will also conduct another campaign in the spring, when undergraduate cars emerge from the high-cost garages around the Square.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Second Call for Parking Applicants Goes Unheard as Only Five Sign Up | 1/22/1948 | See Source »

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