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Word: headful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pacific: With My Heart in My Mouth. Taylor Is inclined to believe that some sort of rough justice is indicated by the fact that soon after returning unscathed from the Pacific an icicle from the 33rd floor of the TIME & LIFE Building scored a direct hit on his head and laid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 7, 1949 | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

None of this meant that Sherman would have an easy-or even successful-career as head of the Navy. Resentments against him ran deep in his own service, deeper perhaps than against any other officer erf the Navy. But if he became the choice of the Commander in Chief, it would be up to the Navy to accept the decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Punishment | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...Galloping Backward." Indignantly, the Democratic Party took up the challenge. With a pearl-grey fedora planted symmetrically on his grey-fringed head 71-year-old Herbert Lehman, Dulles' opponent, stumped the state. A Wall Streeter himself* for ten years (1933-43), an able governor of New York, Candidate Lehman went down the line for the Fair Deal, with occasional speechwriting assists from old Roosevelt Speechwriter Judge Sam Rosenman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Something New | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...Lamont has definitely started a new trend among American college libraries," Philip J. McNiff, Head Librarian of Lamont, reported yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McNiff Says Lamont Has Started New Trend for College Libraries | 11/4/1949 | See Source »

...rather well off. They turn over every once in a while and suffer an occasional broken rib, but the injury rate is definitely lower for them than it is for the customers. All a driver's protection comes from two pipe braces, which criss-cross over the driver's head and keep the roof from caving in when a car overturns. Except for the windshield, there is no glass in the form of windows or headlights which might shatter in case of collision. The driver is equipped with an aviation-type safety belt and a football headgear or crash helmet...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 11/3/1949 | See Source »

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