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Word: couriered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just two years ago, Alger Hiss, onetime State Department official, was found guilty of perjuring himself in testimony about Whittaker Chambers, former Communist courier. Before he was sentenced, Hiss told the court: "I am confident that in the future the full facts showing how Whittaker Chambers was able to carry out forgery by typewriter will be developed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEQUELS: Trial by Typewriter | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...Russia, Poland, or Communist China, but the things they stand for. They believe, and as sincerely as we believe the opposite, that power is right. Any means that we can use . . . to combat this incipient evil, are the means that we should use, including the appointment of a courier to Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 3, 1951 | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

...order of Beavers for the U.S. Air Force. U.S. experts were sold on the Beaver early this year when they tested the plane. They ordered 109 to start, now have plans to buy up to 750 of the rugged, $29,000 planes for battlefield air-evacuation and courier duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Bush Pilot's Ideal | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...CRIMSON should tell its would-be distillers to put away their apparatus and concentrate on their studies. The art of moonshining deserves mature and serious consideration and is distinctly a postgraduate effort for which Harvard provides neither the equipment nor the climate. --From the Louisville Courier-Journal, November...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 11/24/1951 | See Source »

...that they will spread the vote by campaigning independently of one another and so defeat themselves. The only time that the independents tried to combine against the CCA, they failed. This was in 1949. The independents lead by former mayor John W. Lyons (now publisher of the weekly Cambridge Courier), held a secret meeting at the Hotel Continental to plan campaign strategy. Spencer had an informer at this caucus who telephoned him information every thirty minutes. When the independents realized their plans were known, they dropped the idea of forming an anti-CCA league...

Author: By Philip M. Cronin, | Title: Cambridge Reform Battle Undergoes...Critical Election | 10/25/1951 | See Source »

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