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Word: handedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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All this might point to invalidation of the election. But it seems hardly worth while to throw the newly-elected committee--probably the correct one by now--out of office. This election got completely out of control, as the Council must have discovered after two days of counting and recounting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Election Confusion | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

¶ A Manhattan department store offered left-handed corkscrews, fountain pens, watches, shears and checkbooks, just in time for Christmas.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: Something for Lefty | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

A good many Faculty members will lose sleep between the third and sixth of February. The third is the last day of the final examination period, and, according to a preliminary announcement handed to the Faculty last week, all "Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 9" courses will hold examinations on...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exam Schedule | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

Handsome, 54-year-old Harry Darby was as Republican as Kansas itself. A national committeeman, he turned down the national chairmanship this year, before it was handed to New Jersey's Guy Gabrielson. Darby wrenched control of Kansas' Republican delegation from Alf Landon last year and led it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KANSAS: Fill-In | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

After holding the confusing scraps of paper for two years after Bartok's death, his executor handed them over to Bartok's close friend and fellow composer Tibor Serly, who had earlier spent four months of skull-cracking labor trying to decipher the piece. Serly later said: "No...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dead Man's Diamond | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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