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Word: havener (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oklahoma ride. After the game is over the player rocks the machine skillfully, just strongly enough to jar any loose buttons on the playing surface and weakly enough to keep the tilt from hitting. Result, free games. Of course there are other methods of outwitting pinball machines, but proprietors haven't discovered them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brute Force Replacing Skill As Pinball Becomes Lost Art | 12/18/1947 | See Source »

...rush started last Friday and won't let up until Christmas Eve," a Coop spokesmen observed yesterday. Thirty additional workers have been added to handle the crowd, he said, and the second floor has been set up as a special Christmas shoppers' haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shops Packed As Yule Rush Reaches Peak | 12/16/1947 | See Source »

...track meet amounts to the same thing as the football or basketball scrimmage, except that it is open to the public. And if Coach Mikkola didn't show his strongest hand Saturday, it may have been because of letters such as the one a Tufts man received from New Haven. "Go down and take a look at Harvard Saturday, will you" the note said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trackmen Corral Four First Places In Tufts Practice | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...kewpie-like party boy Johnny Meyer was the father of her ten-month-old son. She thus lost her suit for support. "Through with women?" said the happy victor, in response to a query from the press. "I love 'em all." Miss Miles wondered aloud: What next? "I haven't got $2 to my name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 15, 1947 | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

Once, in rehearsal, Toscanini directed his scorn at big-voiced Chilean Tenor Ramon Vinay, who has done the role of Otello at the Met. Said Toscanini: "Haven't you ever been in love? You have to be persuasive and gentle in love-even if she is your wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Toscanini's Triumph | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

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