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Word: gamblingest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1963-1963
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...Twain about Lake Tahoe, a 22-mile-long scenic jewel 150 miles northeast of San Francisco, and so the lake remained until about a decade ago. But it lies athwart the north-south line between two of the nation's most superlative states: the boomingest-California-and the gamblingest-Nevada. And this has been all but the ruination of Mark Twain's "noble sheet of blue water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Resorts: Open Sesame | 4/12/1963 | See Source »

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