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Word: cart (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marines v. Police. Meanwhile, a full-fledged battle raged in Bangkok. Women seized their children, and cart ponies reared in their traces as the first detachment of soldiers came racing down Ploen Chit Road with bayonets fixed. As twilight fell, artillery fire was rocking the city streets. The navy established a beachhead at Lumphini Amusement Park. The army dug in at the Sports Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: Battle of Bangkok | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

Died. Bishop George Allen Beecher, 83, senior member of the House of Bishops of the U.S. Episcopal Church and pioneer preacher of the old West; after long illness; in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. He went to Nebraska in 1882, roved a vast territory in a pony cart, bivouacking at night on the open prairie, became a friend of Sitting Bull, toured Europe with Colonel William ("Buffalo Bill") Cody's Wild West show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 25, 1951 | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

...great philosopher because his thought was merely a reflection to conditions around him, colored by his own personality. Others, however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely the old problem of which came first the chicken or the egg. In any case, there is much to be said on both sides...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 6/5/1951 | See Source »

...police escort and special busses will harry ticket-holders to the ship's dock, and the busses will hang around to cart contended seniors home. Tickets for Class Week activities will go on sale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swish Senior Sail Is Slated for Class Week | 5/5/1951 | See Source »

Money was useful to Roosevelt who kept himself busy socially. In his senior year, he owned "a cart and horse, with whip, rug, etc." He used to drive to the suburb of Chestnut Hill where he met the girl he became engaged to in his senior year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Press Publishes Roosevelt Letters; T.R. Wrote About Undergraduate Life, Russia | 4/18/1951 | See Source »

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