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Word: livin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Takes a Heap o' Livin'. In Akron, Earl Hartung & family had to evict the squawking tenants before moving into the only place they could rent: a chicken coop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 24, 1945 | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

...morra, t'morra,* Livin' for t'morra, Why is t'morra better than t'day? T'morra, t'morra, Lookin' for t'morra, My aunt became a spinster That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan, Oct. 16, 1944 | 10/16/1944 | See Source »

...Guess they forgot bout them dust storms, 'cause the topsoil just upped and blowed away. Couldn't even raise dandelions. So, me 'n the missus packed our duds on the Ford and headed out for Californy. Reard there'd be work out there for us Picked oranges for a livin' 'n me a Harvard Man. Yep majored in Fine Arts, Bout a couple o' weeks ago. Government man came 'round, told us about rescedin' 'n contour plowin'. We, me 'n the missus, decided we might as well go on back to our own land, and try to make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Simple Story of The Land And The Faith of Its People | 4/18/1944 | See Source »

...time past, whin I put me jut through wry livin' wan of the Tin Commandments between Revelly and Lights Out, blew the froth off a pewter, wiped me mustache wid the back av me hand, an' slept on ut all as quiet as a little child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: No Mulvaneys | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

...takes a heap of other things besides a heap o' livin' to make a home out of a house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry, Apr. 21, 1941 | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

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