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Word: laking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saginaw, Mich, abandoned its old-fashioned corner pumps, with their old oaken buckets, which had supplied the town's drinking water for years. (Water from the polluted Saginaw River was unpalatable after chemical treatment.) This week new drinking water poured in through pipes from, Lake Huron, 80 miles away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

Also on the agenda is a series of dicmentary films about the United Nations and the functions of the organization here at Lake Success and abroad at Paris...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clark Quits as UN Group Head | 10/28/1948 | See Source »

...Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) decided to try a small-scale test of its methods in Haiti's remote Marbial Valley, where illiteracy was the rule. To the valley six months ago went a team of UNESCO educators to begin the experiment. Last week, Lake Success announced that the project was being suspended. The UNESCO officials, said U.N., had come down with something almost as common in the Marbial Valley as illiteracy: malaria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: The Long Road | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

Born. To Veronica Lake, 29, blonde cinemactress; and second husband Andre DeToth, 35, director; their second child (her third), a daughter; in Los Angeles. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 25, 1948 | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...little trophy, which now serves Barnard residents as a milk jug, was won last year by "Wellesley Has a Muddy Lake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe | 10/21/1948 | See Source »

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