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Word: halfe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...received the mayoralty for two reasons: 1) He had polled the most votes, 4,405, in the Council election. 2) He gave up his strong bid for the mayoralty in 1947 to break a deadlock in the Council that had lasted for some 1250 ballots and two and a half months...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Edward Crane Will be Mayor Of Cambridge | 11/25/1949 | See Source »

...version of the Gl mine-detector, was purchased because turn - of - the - century plumbers were illiterate and could not record where they had laid their pipes, Robinson said, "Now," he added, "every time a squirrel runs down a drain and clogs it up, the plumbers have to dig up half of Cambridge to find the trouble...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mine-Detector Solves Maintenance Department's Pipe-Locating Puzzle | 11/25/1949 | See Source »

...Ross, assistant Union athletic secretary, said the basketball season will be divided into two halves. During the first half, which begins Wednesday of next week, there will be two leagues of eight teams apiece, roughly approximating the touch football leagues. League winners will play each other some time before Christmas recess in order to determine the fall Yard championship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yard Intramural Basketball Teams Begin Practice Today | 11/22/1949 | See Source »

...Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli (1926). In which Catholic Author Firbank dwells with orgiastic relish on the sexual practices of a worldly Spanish churchman. Not for family reading. ¶The Artificial Princess (1934) returns to the favored Firbank theme of palace love; but its fluffy, frail ingredients, languidly mixed and half-heartedly baked, only give it the hurt look of a tortured meringue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Perfect Dear | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Moses, who was returning from the Yale game, has owned a war surplus North American AT-6 trainer for a year and a half. He took off at Bridgeport at 4:45 p.m. yesterday and was due at Logan Airport at 5:40 p.m. Civil Aeronautics Administration officials reported...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman's Plane Overdue; Search Parties Scour N.E. | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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