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Word: lefts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...braved the trip. When he built his new store, between Basil Street and Braupton Road, a domed and gingerbready six-story edifice with 13½ acres of floor space, Burbidge shrewdly allowed for expansion by letting out the top floors as flats. Of the ten flats that are left, the largest belongs to his grandson Sir Richard Burbidge, Bt., who was born there and grew up to be the present managing director. Several hours a day, Sir Richard leaves his office and patrols his domain, correctly clad in striped trousers and short coat, and wearing a bowler hat to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Old Store | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Boston Saw Red. When all the 50 human cylinders in him were popping in rapid succession, Dickens was a holy terror. He went into a rage if a single piece of furniture in his house was moved or left untidied; he pinned angry notes to his quaking daughters' pincushions, urging them to better habits. On the other hand, he thought nothing of suddenly taking off and striding madly 15 or 20 miles through the night streets of London, or of popping through the window into a friend's drawing room, dressed as a sailor and dancing a hornpipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Holy Terror | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...many parts, ranging from sheer farce to stark tragedy, drained Dickens' abounding vitality even more than his dependents drained his well-filled purse (he left nearly half a million dollars when he died). When he deliberately added to the strain by touring England and the U.S., reading and miming famous chapters of his novels, he knew that he was shortening his life. For a few years he enjoyed the actor's supreme privilege of seeing men & women rolling in the aisles or being carried out in terrified swoons. Meanwhile, at the reading desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Holy Terror | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...clear, but there was a surprise left for Fred Boysen. Police stepped up and arrested him on a charge of theft. A Negro nurse had seen his picture in the papers, thought he looked like one of the men who had swiped her purse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Happy Springs the Lip | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...Indian runs were unearned and came after Harvard had jumped on Bob Amirault for two runs in the first inning. Mort Dunn lashed Amirault's first pitch into centerfield for a single. He went to second on a sacrifice by Ed Foynes, who replaced John Caulfield in left, and Foynes was safe on an error by third baseman Dick Desmond...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Errors Assist Dartmouth to 5-2 Win | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

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