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Word: filed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dances, and the main memory that came rushing back was about the one that I went to. It took place in a hotel ballroom located three blocks from the school. At the stroke of midnight an awful gray-haired lady blew a whistle, and the girls promptly marched single-file into an armored bus, which took them safely home...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Off The Cuff | 12/4/1948 | See Source »

Seattle taxi drivers speak of him sourly. Since 1944, Beck has kept them under local trusteeship (a state in which the rank & file cannot initiate meetings) as punishment for holding a wildcat strike. Many teamsters complain that they have no voice in the union's affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Herdsman | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...dope fiend. (She sprays her temperamental throat with a doctor's prescription that includes cocaine.) Once, for the benefit of a visiting innocent, she took a Benzedrine pill (a drug she uses regularly), mashed it on wax paper with a rolling pin and asked for a nail file. Then, sprinkling the powder on the file and sniffing it, she said: "This is really the only way it's effective, dahling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: One-Woman Show | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...animal ever bred, but as a dairy bull he has had few equals. In 13 years, hefty, mahogany-and-white Netherhall Swanky Dan, an Ayrshire bred in Scotland, had lumbered into 84 show rings, had won the championship every time. At the Ayrshire Breeders Association in Brandon, Vt, a file of cards, with 200 names was needed to register his offspring, valued at some $200,000. One of his offspring, Cavalier's Swanky Hughina, set a formidable record for Ayrshires by producing 18,817 Ibs. of milk and 656 Ibs. of butterfat in a year. Two others, Cavalier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Champ | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

Though intended mainly for Harvard graduates, the center's facilities will be open to Yale men as well. It will handle messages between alumni, keeping a file of notices, with a cross-index listing of the sender and addressee...

Author: By Albert J. Feldman, | Title: Crimson Key Society Will Paint Town Red for Blue Infiltrators | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

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