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Word: havener (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noise its advertisers would buy. Last week, an advertiser showed that he considered the station's silence worth paying for. When WKYW signs off for the night, an announcer now says: "The next eleven hours of silence are sponsored by the Logan Co., makers of the famous Sleep Haven Mattress. . . . Good night-and good rest." Price of the smart spot announcement: just $6 a night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Golden Silence | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

Except for Leonard J. Winchester of New Haven, a Yale student, and Fred Beckey of Seattle, the other members of the nine-man party were all members of the Harvard Mountaineering Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Avalanche Kills Student Scaling Canadian Peak | 7/29/1947 | See Source »

Larry Crosby, Bing's inventor brother, announced that he had built a mousetrap that was apparently no better (see cut). "I've had the thing for years," he confessed, "and I haven't even had a nibble, not even from a mouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 28, 1947 | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

Daly: "I see a man...come out from the trees. Now others come running....They haven't got a stitch on!...The Admiral is coming ashore....[He] takes the standard and plants it in the sand....Now he kneels...bends to kiss the sand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Time Machine | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...nervous any more. Last year I used to be nervous as a cat before a game, and then I found it made me wild in the early innings. So I said to myself, 'Boy, you can't be nervous any more.' I haven't worried since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Man Who Doesn't Worry | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

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