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Word: counte (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than 30 operettas, Lehar's own favorite was the Count of Luxemburg. "My friends often say," he wrote, "that I am like [the] Count of Luxemburg; they are perhaps not altogether wrong . . . I have always enjoyed life and society, the conversation of pretty women and witty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Count of Luxemburg | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...problem of buying for all ages is simplified by the Toy Guidance Council Inc., financed by 175 manufacturers and retailers. This year it is distributing 1,500,000 Toy Yearbooks describing 200 toys which help children to learn to count and spell. Examples: Play and Count book (price: $1.25), magnetized "Pick-up-Stix" (69?), the "Playskool Counting House" scale, which balances only when weighted numbers on both sides add up to the same figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Babes in Toyland | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

Died. Elissa Landi, 43, novel-writing stage & screen actress (Count of Monte Cristo, Sign of the Cross), reputedly the granddaughter of Austria's Empress Elizabeth; of cancer; in Kingston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...voting last week, Radcliffe's 100-girl logasdlative body, Assembly, was axed by the final count of 519 to 113, and Annex membership in the University Association of Joint Student Councils won approval...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Votes No on Measure For Library Book Checking | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

College debaters lost unanimous decisions to Yale on two fronts yesterday. Arguing the question, "Should Truman Be Re-Elected," the Crimson supported Dewey and-took a 3-0 count in the Winthrop Junior Common Room. At Yale, another team lost by the same count while defending the President...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debate Council Falters as Yale Sweeps Election Talks | 10/30/1948 | See Source »

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