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Word: lefts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the visitors at practice were Chip Gannon and Nick Rodis, both of whom are now coaching at American International. Davey Nelson, however, left Cambridge for Maine immediately after filling his Yale reports with his former boss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Final Week Starts With Light Drill | 11/15/1949 | See Source »

...Brien rushed outside the store after the gunman left but failed to spot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gunman Steals Cash from 'Pro' | 11/15/1949 | See Source »

...September 1861 Mrs. Chesnut left the charm of "dear delightful Charleston," never so courtly as during the bombardment of Fort Sumter, visited in Richmond with the Jefferson Davises, got to White Sulphur Springs in time to hear about the victory at Bull Run, then moved to Mulberry, one of her father-in-law's plantations in South Carolina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 1861-65, Unexpurgated | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...Touch That Soup! The murder went so quietly that the slaves decided to rob the old lady, too. While they were getting into her trunks, she revived. The second attempt was more thorough, left traces. It also terrified the few white people at Mulberry. When their maids offered to sleep in the same room, to protect them, the women were even more terrified. When they sat down to dinner, old Mrs. Chesnut cried: "I warn you! Don't touch that soup! It is bitter. There is something wrong about it." As it happened, the soup was all right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 1861-65, Unexpurgated | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...cork in a village of the Tyrol, where he spent part of his boyhood. Out comes a bubbling mixture of beautiful spies who refuse to be seduced, mountaineers who outwit pockmarked Nazis, and emigrant sons who write home from America: "Chopping wood one day recently, I cut off my left thumb and the cat got it ... and ate it. I am now forced to stay idle. Send me some money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nosegay | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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