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Word: downed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Six Boston daily newspapers were forced to shut down last night for the second time in 27 months, after the International Typographical Union ordered a strike against the newspapers.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston Papers Shut | 11/6/1959 | See Source »

"Should I stretch out or sit up?" Vag asked himself. "I might as well compromise." He sat down on a soft red chair at the far end of the room, put his feet up on a coffee table, and began to read. "If I study without underlining this time," he...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: And So It Goes | 11/5/1959 | See Source »

It was nearly 11 o'clock, and Vag had read one chapter. The time had finally come, he told himself, to get down to work. "But first, I'll look at my roommate's Dali print for inspiration." Each of his roommate's had wanted to write a poem to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: And So It Goes | 11/5/1959 | See Source »

One observer said the Association's battle to obtain five seats on the nine-man Council might well go down to the last vote, and it was still too early in the count to tell exactly who would win.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sullivan, Crane Pass Vote Quota Needed For City Council | 11/5/1959 | See Source »

The above three items, all true, lead one to reconsider the warning of Mr. Eric Sevareid of CBS news last year, that perhaps we shouldn't rush off so quickly to see the other side of the moon. We're not ready, he said, because we don't yet known...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Other Side | 11/5/1959 | See Source »

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