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Word: locks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minnesota campus was full of New Deal-talk. Humphrey plunged enthusiastically into the midst of it. He gulped down the New Deal ideology, lock, stock & pork-barrel. He became a big wheel in the political science department, a voluble, incessant talker-long on persuasiveness, a little short on logic. A professor once told him: "If God had given you as much brains as he has given you wind, you would be sure to be another Cicero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Education of a Senator | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...Yard Police took steps. They restrained their eager lock-wielders. A hardy student who had continued to plug northward suddenly discovered his trip unobstructed. He quickly spread the word; students streamed up to the new library again; they blinked at the lighting and gaped at the pastel-colored books tacks. And Chief Randall and his faithful group of Police retired in a state of quiet but vigilant apprehension, carefully balancing the advantages of the open gates against the danger of possible nefarious incursions into the Yard from without. They have little to fear, however. Their action has gone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wide Is the Gate | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...four turned over their beads to a Buddhist priest in attendance. Tojo also handed the priest his glasses and his false teeth, to give to Mrs. Tojo. (He had already sent his wife a lock of hair and a fingernail clipping as mementos-TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Seven Old Men | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...older sister (Jayne Meadows) stands in the hallway of their house holding a large brass key. He has just sworn never to touch it again (or enter the house) as long as she lives. The camera narrows its focus to the key; the key turns in a lock-in the hand of Niven's grandniece (Evelyn Keyes) half a century later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 27, 1948 | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...fault," David Calirl and Paul Ziluca both '51, said last night. "We usually lock the door but Saturday we didn't and that's what happened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burglars Snatch $250 Haul from Grays Hall Suite | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

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