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Word: logs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remembrance of a great voice. Although he puffed a bit through his program of Lully, Berlioz, Debussy and Bizet, Basso Rothier proved he still had a voice as golden in its middle range as an old $20 piece and as round and sound at the bottom as a mahogany log. And when he finished up with Schumann's The Two Grenadiers he also proved he could still bring down a house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Still Very Good | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...spent a log of time in may bathtub after that and I knew that if he ever swam the English Channel, it would have to be with a woman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English Channel Duck Soup For University Hall's Turtle | 10/7/1949 | See Source »

Jaguar in a Cage. Despite his cattle wealth, Lohman lives like a frontiersman. His ranch house is surrounded by a palm-log stockade, has no running water, no plumbing. Screening for the bedrooms is his one concession to comfort in the mosquito-infested Chaco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caudillo from Texas | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...hacked through the oak and hemlock. When food gave out, they broiled rattlesnakes, washed the meat down with rum. At the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, the leader paced off a ten-acre town square in the New England tradition, and set some of his men to work building log-cabin shelters. Result: Cleveland, Ohio-lacking an "a" because the party's mapmaker left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Midwestern Mushroom | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...National Father's Day Committee named 79-year-old William Gasper Peter of Beech Creek, Pa. the father of the largest family of 1949: he has 18 children, 80 grandchildren. Said Peter, who is not too old to work as a log splitter: "I hit the wedge hard because that is a way of blowing off steam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, May 30, 1949 | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

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