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Word: flints (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After two months of almost unbroken heat, the weather got hotter & hotter. A 40 & 8 band from Flint, Mich, marched in an American Legion parade in Detroit in diapers and baby hats. In big-city slums, thousands slept on rooftops and fire escapes. Then over the weekend, a cold air mass moved in at last and made life bearable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Aug. 8, 1949 | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...they raised $86,000 and launched TIME with a staff of 25, including, says Author Busch, "three muddleheaded debutantes." The question whether Hadden or Luce was responsible for TIME, Busch concludes, "was as idle as a controversy about whether it is the steel or the flint that produces fire. Both were responsible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Posthumous Portrait | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...addition to the Council and HLU donations, funds were secured from the class treasury, the '52 weekend last March, a sacrifice dinner in the Annex dormitories, Hillel, and Mrs. William W. Flint, house mother of Eliot Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex DP Drive Nears $1500 Goal | 4/26/1949 | See Source »

...gift from Mrs. William W. Flint, house mother of Eliot Hall, brought the freshmen to within $400 of their goal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Dinner Aids DP | 4/22/1949 | See Source »

Imperfect Echo. To most citizens (and to many of the electors themselves) the whole archaic process seemed as absurd and awkward as starting a jet engine with an 18th Century flint and steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: The Middlemen | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

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