Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...possibilities of these questions occurred to Mr. Taft, who hadn't previously done much thinking along such lines, when the Chief of Police of Shirley dropped in and made tentative motions towards including the new settlement within his pale. Two jumps ahead of the law, Mr. Taft calculated the implications of a possible acceptance-- first police, then fire protection, but inevitably taxes. So, arguing that the Village was a government reservation, not subject to the town of Shirley or any other town, for that matter, he carried his point through three meetings with town officials. He came out knowing that...
...I.T.U." But nobody in Springfield was surprised to see him doing business with bespectacled Robert C. Kirkpatrick, the union's international representative. He was already calling him "Bob." And when Bob got a troublesome ear ailment, Bowles arranged for him to visit a clinic. So far he hadn't asked Bob up to the big Bowles house on Crescent Hill, which the sheriff had just sold to the state in settlement of a court judgment...
...Harlow team just couldn't roll up a big score, but the scoreboard stop the Stadium late Saturday afternoon which read 49 to 0, in the Crimson's gaudiest touchdown parade since its 61 to 0 slaughter of a de-emphasized Chicago eleven in 1939, made them wish they hadn't spoken...
...spot rode a burly Texas cowboy, 42-year-old Cecil Smith, who racked up four goals. Another old hand, Stu Iglehart, 37, busted up Mexico's attacks at No. 3 with what used to be the best backhand in the business-and it hadn't slipped much...
...band had been one of the few wild enough to tickle Harlem's native ear: "Tension music was okay during the war. Now we're done with it." He was about to cut down his 21-piece swing band to a smaller, tamer one because loud music hadn't paid well enough lately. Said he: "I'm one of the worst offenders. I have six trumpet men. Imagine that...