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Word: colds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Apparently stimulated by the approach of spring, 250 male students of Augustana College, Rock Island, Ill., raided a women's dormitory, tipped over beds and pushed screeching coeds into cold showers. The girls seemed delighted. "It was more fun than anything else," said Senior Lois Taylor. "In fact, we had an inkling they were coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Mar. 7, 1949 | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...Puritan defense, sparked by Frank Gumpe, stopped Lowell's fast break cold, and John White led the driving Winthrop offense. Ted Nelson, tall man of the League, provided masterly control of the rebounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop Quintet Hands First Loss To Lowell, 38-30 | 3/3/1949 | See Source »

...commanded respect on Capitol Hill. Backslapping Congressmen did not especially take to him, but they appreciated his cold competence. They also appreciated the fact that he appeared to stand above ordinary Washington politicking. If he was ever devious, it was a deviousness too subtle for the average human eye. On the record, his methods were straight and direct. He sometimes got impatient at congressional questioning, but managed pretty well to cover it up; only occasionally did his voice become edgy and curt. Once, when he was Assistant Secretary, he spent a whole day under the grueling, stubborn fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: The Man from Middletown | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Peron, no economist, looked on a possible loan with a politician's cold eye. At the Peronista rally, he melodramatically protested that "before signing [such] a document ... I would shoot myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Deep In the Red | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...continental U.S. and a range at least 3,000 miles long. At intervals along the first 500 miles, the range should have check points. There will have to be "impact areas" too, where the missiles can land without killing innocent bystanders. The range should have a climate not too cold or rainy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Uninhabited Aircraft | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

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