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Word: maying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meantime, however, the Council can do certain things to lubricate the legislative works. First, the Council needs a bigger chamber to seat all 20-odd official and ex-office members, and it needs more office assistance. However, these items may require funds which the Council does not have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Out of the Slump | 2/12/1949 | See Source »

Legendary Atlantis may have been "enticing-exciting-exotic" as the billboards claim, but the movie "Siren of Atlantis" is not. This latest attempt to reproduce the "Lost Horizon" twist ends up in a dull, uninteresting, drab film...

Author: By Edward J. Sack, | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/11/1949 | See Source »

...severe winters have been moving west in the past three years. In 1947 England had a bitter winter; last year the northeastern United States was hit by a series of heavy snow storms; and this year parts of the west have been virtually paralyzed by blizzards. "The westward motion may be just a coincidence but it will be interesting to watch next year," Brooks said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sun Spots May Be Villain in Winter's Freakish Weather | 2/11/1949 | See Source »

...inadequacies of their own library and more bitter about them. Some of these will be alleviated in the rebuilding plans which President Jordan will announce next week. Improvements in lighting, ventilation and efficiency will probably be included. But, according to the statements of the head librarian other shortcomings may be ignored...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Radcliffe Library | 2/11/1949 | See Source »

Some of you may have thought that the Nineteenth Century mortgage melodrama was dead, but if so, you have sadly underestimated Hollywood's talent for reincarnation. "In "The Girl from Mauhattan," the second picture at the Pilgrim, the mortgage foreclosure appears with all its hideous threats and Dorothy Lamour as the hapless victim. But a few enticing twists have been added. The villain doing the foreclosing is, of all things, a church looking for a new site, and the hero is an all-American fullback turned minister. Dorothy Lamour, Charles Laughton, and George Montgomery are all involved in this hideous...

Author: By Edward J. Sack, | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/11/1949 | See Source »

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