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Word: lefting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually the visitors were trustees from one of the most important colleges for women in the U.S. Wellesley College, in Wellesley, Mass., was searching high & low for 3 new president. With only six candidates left out of an original 1,200 whose names had been suggested, Wellesley's scouts had come to look over the Brooklyn possibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Just Well Rounded | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...John Bigelow (1817-1911), editor with William Cullen Bryant of the N.Y. Evening Post, Civil War consul to France and one of the founders of the Republican Party, was a lifelong man-behind-the-scenes. Historians had left him there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Just Well Rounded | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...Bergson smiled self-consciously, Greenewalt ripped into the department: "We have had on our books for many years the Sherman antitrust law. The Du Pont Company is ... heartily in favor of that law . . . Unfortunately . . . the ideology of enforcement is left to the shifting winds of political thought . . . Business frequently finds itself attacked for acts done many years ago in all good faith and with the best legal advice available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Question, Please | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...prostitute (Valentina Cortesa) wins the hero from the-girl-back-home with whom he had been violently in love only two days earlier. Besides this reversal of Hollywood tradition, there is an excessively steamy love scene between Cortesa and Conte after an excessively cute game of ticktacktoe on his left pectoral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 10, 1949 | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Roughshod. In Chicago, Fred Haver-kate formally charged George Widdes with assault with a deadly weapon: "One pair of oxford shoes, size eight, attached to the defendant's right and left feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 10, 1949 | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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