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Word: creaks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean Landis said last fall, during the campaign: "The increased responsibilities that we have placed on the old municipal mechanism has made the machine creak. Regardless of the personalities in control, the Cambridge government is unable to handle present day problems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Voters Troop to Polls November 4th to Cast First Ballots Under Plan E Reform | 10/8/1941 | See Source »

There is many a creak in most U.S. defense preparations, but last week one job had been completed in a way the U.S. had every right to be proud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAVY: General Smith Does a Job | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

...When the creak of the tumbril was heard again last spring in Europe, it was almost inevitable that a biography of Robespierre would not be far behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sea-Green Monster | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

Cambridge is wider awake than ever before to the inadequacies of its government, Dean Landis asserted in an interview yesterday. "The increased responsibilities that we have placed on the old municipal mechanism has made the machine creak. Regardless of the personalities in control, the Cambridge government is unable to handle present-day problems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEAN LANDIS FEELS CERTAIN OF PLAN E ADOPTION IN NOVEMBER ELECTIONS | 9/28/1940 | See Source »

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