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Word: connect (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...Force to become chairman of the National Security Resources Board. On the record, the NSRB, established three years ago, wasn't much of a job-but it should be. It had been designed as a big cog in the nation's defense machinery, but somebody forgot to connect it to the machine. Its first chairman, Arthur M. Hill, could not get along with Harry Truman and quit after 14 months on the job. Then Harry Truman nominated the conspicuously unqualified Mon C. Wallgren, a Democrat out of a job, who couldn't get the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Musical Chairs | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...freshman hockey team ran up against one of the best goalies it has faced all season--Tom Kelly of Boston University--as it fell before BU, 6 to 3, yesterday afternoon at the Arena. Out of 44 shots at the BU cage, the Yardings could connect on only three...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Terrier Six Jolts '53 Skaters, 6-3 | 3/8/1950 | See Source »

Harvey's retorted, dead pan, that the change in the well-known name might cut down sales in dollar countries. Someone in the Food Ministry recognized the boner, and last week the advice was withdrawn. Said a contrite Ministry spokesman: "Nobody but an imbecile would connect sherry with the product...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: What, No Sherry Cow? | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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