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Word: ga (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George School's new principal, Richard McFeely, is a Quaker who once coached football at George and is still known to alumni as "Mister Dick." A football player at Swarthmore, he was later struck down by infantile paralysis. At Warm Springs, Ga. he met the nurse he later married and became a good friend of Franklin Roosevelt. He is determined that George School under him shall be as it was under Walton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Quakers with the New Look | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

Cast of Characters. In Macon, Ga., Agnes Aline Murphy, who had a broken leg, and Anthony Pate Hall, who had a broken leg, went to get a marriage license, were directed to the proper office by Linton Burket, who had a broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 16, 1948 | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...week's end, there were plenty of facts to fill in the story. The planes, surplus Consolidated PB4Ys (the Navy's version of the B-24), had been bought from the War Assets Administration without armament. They had been flown from Bush Field, Ga., by five U.S. airmen, all of whom were turned over to the U.S. Embassy in Managua. Four were deported to New Orleans, arrested, and charged with violating the U.S. Neutrality Act. A fifth, an AWOL air force captain, was handed over to military authorities in Panama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Fizzled Blitz | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Cough Up. In Moultrie, Ga., a suspicious policeman tapped the shoulder of a drunk, who promptly spat out about five dollars in nickels & dimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 26, 1948 | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

Answer. In Moultrie, Ga., an irate traffic cop demanded an autoist's name, for an answer got "Scram"-and, just in the nick of time, the rest of it: Joe Scram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

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