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Word: giving (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adams House got an early lead in the tournament Monday when its ex-varsity player, Pierce, beat Larry Zeitlin of Kirkland House to break a tie and to give Adams four points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams Men Lead In House Fencing After Saber Win | 3/30/1949 | See Source »

Dick would convene the gentlemen of the press in his Dillon cubicle, settle back in his wooden armchair, fold his hands across his paunch, cross those match sticks be uses for legs, and give them the lowdown, drawling half from the aide of his mouth and half through his nose...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: Crew Spells Nostalgia to Old Crads | 3/30/1949 | See Source »

...midwives to learn analgesia within four years has been backed by Labor's red-haired Leah Manning. Mrs. Manning's argument: "If some doctors had a labor ward of men to look after, I think it highly probable that for the defense of their sanity they would give their patients something more than a towel and tell them to pull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Word from the Experts | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Hollywood may shout about a movie and New York critics rave about it-but Main Street can still give it a cold shoulder. Theater owners generally listen to Main Street, where most of their paying customers live. Before booking a movie, many a cautious exhibitor scans the pages of Boxoffice and Motion Picture Herald for the thumbnail reviews by exhibitors who have already shown the picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Behind the Popcorn Popper | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...Album is a handsome collection of pictures, cartoons, handbills and newspaper facsimiles from the great days of the rush. Forty-Niners is a new edition of what is now almost a classic work of research by Author Hulbert into the daily life of those who traveled overland. Together they give an unforgettable impression of a mighty movement of people, unorganized and yet queerly efficient, undisciplined and yet tenacious, unbeatable, ignorant, misled, unprepared, unaided, persisting despite almost every obstacle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Argonauts | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

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