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Word: heaps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when I'm sitting without anything to read waiting for a train in a depot, I torment myself with the poet's dictum that to make a house a home, livin' is what it takes a heap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry, Apr. 21, 1941 | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...Peter Piper picked a peck o' heap o' livin', what kind of a peck o' heap o' livin' would Peter Piper pick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry, Apr. 21, 1941 | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...takes a heap of other things besides a heap o' livin' to make a home out of a house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry, Apr. 21, 1941 | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...begin with, it takes a heap o' payin', And you don't pay just the oncet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry, Apr. 21, 1941 | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...period consists of delving in a heap of sand to unearth a collection of bones previously planted there by an instructor. Once in a while the prospective ditch-diggers go farther afield for their exploits than their little piles of sand. Last spring, for instance, they excavated a colonial cellar in Concord...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COURSE IN DITCH DIGGING OFFERED BY THE UNIVERSITY | 3/4/1941 | See Source »

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