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Word: defaults (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Princeton, unable to attend the meet, was forced to default...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Team Beats Yale in NH Meet | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...members?" That was the heart of the matter. Hold your hats, the Secretary warned, there's been a lot of loose thought on the distinction between moral and legal obligation. Decent people usually carry out their contracts because of moral obligation. Some decent people default in their contracts because they get in trouble one way or another, and then they go to court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Lessons Learned | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Preliminary matches in the Freshman and Inter-House Wrestling Tournament started rolling yesterday afternoon in the wrestling rooms of the Indoor Athletic Building. The matches produced six pins, two decisions, and one default...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House, Freshman Wrestlers Finish Preliminaries Today | 3/15/1949 | See Source »

Perle Mesta is the capital's No. 1 hostess, a position she had inherited, almost by default, from a long line of free-spending, haughty, and sometimes charming dowagers. Hostess Mesta had discovered a useful and economical secret: her kind of guests like to entertain each other. At Perle Mesta's parties, Harry Truman has played the piano, General Ike Eisenhower has sung Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes (in a shaky baritone), Pat Hurley, without too much encouragement, has given his Comanche war whoop, and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt has whistled in a duet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Widow from Oklahoma | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Charley Weiss of Kirkland House, one of the best boxers of the evening, easily won the 130-pound class title. Al Ruby, also of Kirkland, won his 145-pound title by default...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop Wins House Boxing Title | 3/11/1949 | See Source »

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