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Word: drunks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greater Need. In Montrose, Pa., Farmer Elmer Greene was fined $9.13 for "neglect" when he admitted that he had bought his sick horse a "special medicine" but had drunk most of it himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 22, 1948 | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...father. A quiet girl with shoulder-long hair, she spends her time at home studying the nonhereditary mutations of the fruit fly. Her father, a school principal in New York City, had already heard the news on the radio. Cried he into the phone: "Half the neighborhood's drunk already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Top Juniors | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...report, which appeared in the Hearst American Weekly last Sunday, alleged that the Employment Office had obtained the role of experimental drunk for Alden R. Adams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Employment Office Denies Offering Students as Professional Inebriates | 3/10/1948 | See Source »

...week's end, with Nice already drunk with jazz, the international festival reached a shattering finale in Nice's Hotel Negresco with all of the bands blaring in turn. (Satchmo Armstrong was presented with a Sévres vase sent by France's President Vincent Auriol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Nice Jumps | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...word. When the women met at the well it was enough if one of them said: "Piers is at it again." Everybody knew Piers. Everybody knew whether the statement meant that Piers was experimenting with a new crop called "turnips," or giving money to the poor, or lying drunk in a haystack. The news at the well was not only intelligible, it was adequate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Story Of An Experiment: $ 1.48 and the Woman at the Well | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

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