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Word: may (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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AMHERST, Nov. 14--If an Amherst senior flunks his math course it may mean he'll travel to Smith or Mt. Holyoke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amherst Acts to Cut Car Accidents; Ohio State Police Speculate on Death | 11/15/1949 | See Source »

Lipstick stains on clean white shirts may annoy students, but they are welcomed by local laundries. The cleaning establishments report that the girls well serve the cleaning profession...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Careless Love Smudges on Crimson Laundry Reveal Lurid Shirt Tales | 11/15/1949 | See Source »

...decree by Governor Dever freed Bert C. MacLeech 3G yesterday from a fugitive from justice charge on which he has been in jail since last May. The charge had specified that he was wanted in Tacoma, Washington for perjury alledgedly committed when he sought a confirmatory divorce there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dever Frees Student From Fugitive Charge | 11/15/1949 | See Source »

...journal. After the war she transcribed her jottings, found that they filled 50 notebooks. At her death in 1886 she left them to a girlhood friend, who had them published in a highly expurgated edition. The re-editing job that Novelist Ben Ames Williams has done on Mary Chesnut may not only change the old picture of a slightly stuffy diarist, it may also alter a few notions of what life in the Confederacy was like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 1861-65, Unexpurgated | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Russell Janney is an old and successful hand at reducing religious feeling to bathos ; his slushy novel, The Miracle of the Bells (TIME, Sept. 16, 1946), sold 750,000 copies. His doggerel Vision of Red O'Shea may not do as well, but it has a distinction of its own: not since Edgar Guest lit his Harbor Lights of Home and Robert Service thumped through Songs of a Sourdough has a versifier shown such loving absorption in platitude and meticulous attention to clich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Get the Angle Yet? | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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