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Word: draggings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beginning their 78th year of faithful delivery, CRIMSON newsboys, whose white and hoary beards are beginning to drag a little and impede their progress, will be given an extra day to make the rounds. Therefore the local paper will not be on the stands until Thursday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Birthday; No Crime | 1/24/1950 | See Source »

WHRB can do little before the hearing is completed. Engineers doubt that they can sufficiently cut the station's radiation; the Network has little hope of getting a temporary reprieve from the Commission's order; and a commercial license would involve an impossible capital expense. As the months drag on, the Network will lose the advertising revenues it needs to prevent physical decay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Rest Is Silence | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

Sample incident: Billy the Kid, the Hero, is swaggering down the main drag when he sees a callow youth having his troubles whittling out the inside of a wooden whistly. Billy tells him to hold out the whistle and then blasts a hole in it with his .45. Says the urchin, "Gosh, Billy, when...

Author: By Donlad Carswell, | Title: The Outlaw | 1/13/1950 | See Source »

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