Word: keyes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many calls they aren't getting, they have to wait to make a call, and, in a token gesture to keep the lines free, they aren't supposed to talk for more than five minutes. So the girls ought to do something about it themselves. I understand that the key people in this sort of thing are the Housemothers. Let the girls approach these stern people, and let them demand that the lines of communication be extended. Let them get rid of that derisive repeated blast of buzzing that the telephone company is pleased to call a busy signal...
...Puritan win raised the possibility that the League race would end up in a tie, and force a playoff. The crucial game on Wednesday between Eliot and Kirkland is the key to the whole situation. If Kirkland (with a 4-1 record) defeats Eliot (5-0) then the three leaders will have identical records as they go into their last games on Friday, when Kirkland plays second place Winthrop and Eliot faces seventh place Dudley. If Eliot wins the Mastodons will walk into their second successive championship...
More than 112,000, including the new "alert police" (who were wearing green-dyed Luftwaffe uniforms), were under arms. Probable commander of the "alert" force was German General Walther von Seydlitz,* survivor of Stalingrad and a key figure of the Moscow-sponsored Free Germany Committee. On the evening of Oct. 153 special Russian plane landed him at Johannisthal-Schbneweide airfield near Berlin; then he was whisked to Soviet military headquarters at Karlshorst...
...Key Largo. A G.I. v. old-style gangsters; Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor, et al. in a John Huston adaptation of a Maxwell Anderson play (TIME...
...case, the root of the trouble seems to have been that he was. He grandly offered to solve any cipher that his readers sent him. People sent him dishonest ciphers-i.e., those which a correspondent could not have readily deciphered even with the key. Poe solved them anyway. His critical essays, that seemed so ill-tempered to his contemporaries, now seem merely honest and forthright. In general, posterity has agreed with...