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Word: closed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hand was on the door knob now, Miss Cam close behind me. She possibly sensed my frustrated and harried feeling. Her eyes lit up again. "Do you want an Impression?" I said yes. "I am impressed with the immense amount of waste here. Why, all those lovely envelopes. I can hardly bear to throw them out. In England, we use gummed labels and use the envelops over and over again. There seems to be great waste everywhere." The telephone had begun to ring again. I opened the door and asked rather foolishly if she had done much reading of American...

Author: By George A. Lelper, | Title: Helen Maud Cam: Medieval Ambassador | 12/16/1948 | See Source »

...freshman match was not so close as the score indicates; the Yardlings had the contest sowed up long before the final match...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Wesleyan Bows, 24-6, To Varsity Wrestlers | 12/15/1948 | See Source »

Records ran a close second, and girls want the semi-classics, like Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata,--"That's my favorite because it was the background music of a movie I liked," testified one young miss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Offers Tips to Shoppers Puzzled What To Give (Him, Her) | 12/14/1948 | See Source »

...sight at Tanforan (in his stall) but not out of mind was Shannon II-a horse close to the heart of every California race fan. Next to Citation, he is probably the fastest horse in the world today. Shannon is a seven-year-old bay stallion, Australian by birth and friendly as an overgrown puppy. Unlike Citation, everything about him is controversial-even his pedigree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Race That Wasn't | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...knocks it down to cost; after another week he cuts it to half the cost (but seldom has to). Last year his two Ohrbach's, Inc. stores - on Manhattan's shrill 14th Street, and in Newark, N.J. - made a handsome profit of $1,500,000 on close to $40 million in sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Cash & Hurry | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

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