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Word: layered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swamp conditions froze traffic around the Square and made sidewalks nearly impassable as a driving rain drove the 37 inches of snow, a record depth since 1930, into a nine inch layer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Icy Torrents and Collapsible Roofs Give Examination Blues New Theme | 1/22/1948 | See Source »

...Square, side streets languished under a layer of slush which kept traffic to a minimum, as the City of Cambridge concentrated its snow removal equipment on Massachusetts Avenue and the Central Square area. "God put it there and God will take it away," said Councilman Mickey Sullivan once more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Snow, Slush, Skids, Sluggish Traffic Feature Season's First Icy Weekend | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Most exciting to archeologists is the great age of the camp sites. The artifacts were imbedded in a layer of "old soil." Above them lay many, feet of wind-deposited material (loess), the result of great dust storms associated with the last (Mankato) glacial advance, 20,000 to 30,000 years ago. Apparently man reached Nebraska early enough to feel the effect of ice when it last crept toward his hunting grounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: First Nebraskans | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

Impregnable and indomitable is the only way to describe the Crimson Saturday. Not a Rutgers man broke through the brilliantly designed triple-layer defense, as smart a November innovation as the Stadium has ever seen...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Enemy Drive Fails to Score Against Post-Rutgers Foolproof Phalanxes | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...Palace, would stick by the old wording in the Book of Common Prayer's marriage service. Others might now "cherish," but, future Queen or not, she would promise to "obey" her husband. And the details of the wedding cake were all set. It would be only a four-layer austerity affair, with a few decorative accents (Elizabeth's and Philip's crests, small reproductions of Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Balmoral; little tableaux; a battle scene at Cape Matapan, some musical emblems, Cupid holding the bride's and groom's initials, the crest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Resting Comfortably | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

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