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Word: goings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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While they had no definite clues to go on, police believed that the same group pulled last night's holdups and yesterday morning's assault and robbery of Fisher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Held Up; Robbers Throw Senior in Charles | 5/24/1949 | See Source »

...crowd, people chatted quietly. Old Man Warner snorted when he heard that folks in the north village were thinking of giving up the lottery. "Pack of crazy fools . . . nothing's good enough for them. Next thing you know, they'll be wanting to go back to living in caves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Come On, Everyone | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...theory behind the treatment, say the Drs. Sackler, is that histamine may give the brain a better blood supply by dilating the blood vessels. Electric shock, they think, works by increasing the amount of histamine. One advantage of the new treatment: the patient need not go to a hospital. The novel histamine report, Dr. van Ophuijsen suspected, would raise a "healthy storm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: All in the Mind | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...deplores the tendency in England and the U.S.--not at Harvard, he remarks diplomatically--of university professors to doubt the worth of their academic pursuits. "Outside always suspects Ivory Tower, but insiders now think asking questions too persistently is form of maladjustment. Research, secret joy, but go to Washington to justify it. Whole concept of university breaks down. Used to think disciplines just different ways of asking same question. Now want answers, not truth...

Author: By Herbert P. Glasson, | Title: Faculty Profile | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...wasn't a very successful move. Ira Godin held the Kaydets to five singles and struck out 14 of them. In the seventh inning, when the visitors bunched three of their hits, a nice throw by Chuck Roche cut down Galiffa, who was trying to go from first to third on a single. A force at second and a fly to left got Godin out of trouble. Otherwise he relied on the strikeout weapon to preserve order...

Author: By Peter B, | Title: Nine Outclasses West Point, 10-0 | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

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