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Word: making (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another plan would make Massachusetts Avenue a westerly one-way thoroughfare below Central Square. Returning traffic would use Mt. Auburn Street to reach Boston. Here again, the large volume of pedestrian student traffic and the narrowness of Mt. Auburn Street make this another dubious solution...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Cambridge Fights to Unsnarl Traffic | 9/30/1949 | See Source »

...lifetime he has woven his experiences into his stories till now, looking back, he can't separate the fact from the fiction. Perhaps it was this sort of profundity that led critics to label him "superficial" at the age of sixty. But what Maugham lacks in depth he often makes up for in speed. His talents as playwright often outshone his skill with fiction for the very reason that the man could make a clever little plot move along rapidly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 9/28/1949 | See Source »

...Colonel's Lady" Maugham is at his best in satire of cultured English society, and superb acting combines to make this the best of the four pieces. Indeed the production and acting are on an unusually high level throughout the four stories and it is only in analysis that the picture seems to sag a bit in the middle. The general effect, as one leaves the theater, is that "the very old number," as Maugham now likes to call himself, and everyone else who has had anything to do with "Quartet" have turned out a highly entertaining group...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 9/28/1949 | See Source »

Injuries here and a good team at Columbia don't make a happy picture for the next five days. But there seems to be no mental hangover at all from the transcontinental headache--and Art Valpey is still going on his policy of last year, as restated last night: "We played Stanford last Saturday. We play one this Saturday, and next Saturday, and every week after that--one at a time...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: Injuries Bench Four Grid Starters | 9/27/1949 | See Source »

...sports writers supper last night Schwartz stated that he "wasn't in the habit of writing notes to opposing players," saying that Houston had certainly proved himself of All-American caliber. Schwartz pointed out that even in the last quarter, when the game was hopelessly lost, Houston continued to make "90 percent of the key tackles and blocks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schwartz's Letter Praises Houston | 9/27/1949 | See Source »

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