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Word: maining (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the middle of the speaker's dais, Harry Truman looked out happily over the main ballroom of Washington's Mayflower Hotel, bright with autumn flowers and massed flags. The cream of Democratic womanhood was there-India Edwards, 54, boss of the party's women workers and a rising queenmaker, Nellie Tayloe Ross, who runs the U.S. Mint, Minnesota's Eugenie Anderson, new ambassador to Denmark-to celebrate another Democratic victory in "the making. Between the diamondback terrapin soup and the baked seafood canape, White House Press Secretary Charlie Ross approached the dais with a sheaf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: A Most Happy Evening | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...honor of the Bowlfest and the accompanying stream of displaced Harvard men, a special gridiron edition of the CRIMSON will be distributed free at key points in New Haven. After 9 a.m., copies will be distributed at the Yale Station, all Dining Halls, main entrances to the Old Campus, and the railroad station...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crime Will Reach Fans in Cleveland, At Yale Tomorrow | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

Latter-day Harvard coaches who introduced new plays for the Yale game had nothing on co-mentors Stewart and Lake, who, in 1893, outfitted their charges in shiny leather suits. One of the main reasons for the suits was said to lesson the weight a player would have to carry in case of rain, but all sorts of dubious motives were ascribed to the Harvards. The opposing captains waged a bitter arguments before the game as to the legality of the suits but the officials could find nothing in the rule book against wearing them so the game went...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Stars, Changes, Tradition Feature H-Y Series | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

...speakers will analyze three major problems under the main topic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MacLeish, Richards Discuss Poetry; AVC Will Hear Howe on Smith Act | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

...first the plan was for the Band to play in the main ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria for one of the dinner meetings, but the 110 pieces would have made it necessary to limit dining attendance considerably. It was finally decided to have the Band play for just 15 minutes at the opening breakfast. They will travel to New York by pullman sleeper, leaving Boston Tuesday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NAM Will Pay $3,000 to Bring Band To New York for 15 Minute Concert | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

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