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Word: inks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unwary teachers) with repeating water pistols. The junior gunmen got the idea from some of their fathers, who used the same weapons on women's legs at the American Legion Convention in Manhattan. But they had improved on the older generation's technique: they loaded up with ink, perfume, turpentine, ammonia, oil, whiskey, beer and bleaching fluids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Nov. 3, 1947 | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...Express the world's biggest daily. And he has kept it there ever since. Into a four-page paper, Christiansen and his editors pack as many as 70 brisk, brief, breezy news stories, as well as pictures and features. They highlight them with tricky typography (when the "Ink Spots" quartet visited London recently, the headline was four ink blots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Such a Coverage! | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...Ink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 27, 1947 | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...restrictions, Widener is loath to revert to the edict of 1931 and expel every student caught defacing a book. But in view of the wholesale destruction of bound newspaper copies, the cross-hatching of back examination forms, and the tendency to question the statements of unpopular authors with ink and bad taste, the library staff may be forced to apply thumb screws where simple warnings fail. However, even the most stringent regulations would only tax the ingenuity of college doodle bugs; any real amelioration of the situation must come from the students, who are, in the long run, the victims...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marginal Increase | 10/24/1947 | See Source »

...long statement in a study of syndicalism asks future readers to refrain from marginal notes because they prove distracting. The advice is written in indelible ink...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener Grinds Forth Massive Marginal Notes | 10/16/1947 | See Source »

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