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Word: laking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Herschel L. Langenthal '50 is, for the second year in a row, running a private bus service to the Lake Waban sector for men stranded with their dates in the Cambridge area. Service to the hills starts Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Waban Bound Dolly Trolley Runs Saturday | 10/6/1949 | See Source »

...Russians wished to keep their bomb from sending up telltale dust, they could have exploded it deep in some Siberian lake. The second Bikini test bomb (Test Baker), which exploded underwater, did not raise much of a cloud. Most of its dust was carried back into the lagoon by a deluge of radioactive water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Striking Twelve | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...ailing Yale player, second-string fullback Richard D. Liechty, a senior from Lake Geneva, Wis., played over half of last Saturday's game with Connecticut. After the game Liechty reported to the infirmary with a back strain. Yesterday the case was diagnosed as polio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Case of Polio Cancels Yale Grid Contest | 9/29/1949 | See Source »

...year sheriff bought an airplane, a new automobile and a new house. He took his wife on a trip to Lake Tahoe. He got the county to provide a $163 uniform which was loaded with gold braid. But Ard himself told him "not to put that damn thing on and make a fool of himself." It seemed that no matter what he did, people objected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OREGON: The Great Misunderstanding | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...where 30 hot rodders condescended to mingle with jalopy racers) was just an impromptu "drag race," a hell-raising skirmish good for scaring the citizenry and testing the latest motor and fuel adjustments. The real hot rodders meet on weekends at the hard-packed sandy stretches in the dry lake beds of El Mirage, 106 miles northeast of Los Angeles. There, under careful racing conditions, hot-rod clubs known as the "Dragons," the "Cranks" or the "Gents" skim over the sand at speeds of 100 to 180 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Gangway! | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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