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Word: closers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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John R. King, chief of the Cambridge police force, announced that parking violators would only be warned on their first offence, but that the second misdemeanor would entail a fine of $1, every offence thereafter bringing the miscreant closer to a court appearance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Iciness Elicits Parking Tabu On 19 Streets | 2/12/1948 | See Source »

Councilman John K. Lally '49 informs the other members re failure to obtain sufficient parkees to open the across river parking lot. An eager voice arises from a slouched figure that is all but hidden in a large leather upholstered chair; closer examinations discloses the voice as that of David C. Poskanzer '50: "I suggest we have the Cambridge police tow in about 200 cars some night and then we'll be able to fill up the parking lot the next day." He laughs wholeheartedly; other Council members laugh halfheartedly. Says Weld...

Author: By Daniel B. Jacobs, | Title: Within the Council's Smoky Chambers | 2/10/1948 | See Source »

...Gandhi said: "Can you squat?" The reporter squatted. Gandhi at one point in the interview said: "Three hundred years is as nothing." He returned to the present: "The fear haunts me that India must yet go through a deeper blood bath." The government which he had dominated came closer & closer to open war on Pakistan. Only Gandhi's fast last month checked the drift toward open hostilities over Kashmir State...

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

...French had simply made up their minds to stop biting off their noses. With the franc artificially pegged at 119 to the U.S. dollar (when its real value was closer to 340 to the dollar), the French were losing too much world business. If people with dollars could get more francs with them, they could buy more of what France had to sell, from cognac to Citroens. Also, by offering more francs for a dollar, Mayer hoped to lure out of hiding hoards of gold and dollars, valued at hundreds of millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Pleasant & Unpleasant | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

Outside the wall, a young Hindu was seized. He had placed the crude bomb, then had stood well back waiting for the explosion. It did not come. As he moved closer to relight the fuse, the bomb went off. He was the only casualty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Unbroken Prayer | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

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