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Word: meters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...magazine is the poetry. Only Anne Tolstol's "Carmel" is free from banality and fuzziness. "The Neurotic" is overloaded with the cliches of modern poetry, while "Autumn," a quatrain, consists of what seems to be an inaccurate metaphor. "Carmel," a delicate landscape in verse, has an effortless meter, and is one of the most rewarding pieces recently seen in local publications...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On The Shelf | 11/8/1947 | See Source »

Around the Meter. In Wallingford, Conn., the Borough Electric Works set a flat charge of $2.50 a month on owners of television sets for the additional use of power. In Norwich, Conn., the city-owned utility set up a television charge of $1.26 a month. Complained Radio Manufacturers' Association: television uses no more power than many domestic appliances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts and Figures | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

Pepper Street Gangman. It ran in the family. His older brother, Mack, was second in the 200-meter run at the Berlin Olympics in 1936. Jackie was a broad-jumper who once set a Southern California junior college record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rookie of the Year | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

Finding night parking space to begin with is probably a more difficult proposition with no Indoor Athletic Building equivalent to house the overflow. And instead of inviting side streets to serve the penny-pinching motorist, he will find 141 new parking meter poles cropping up along Garden, Holyoke, Dunster, Plympton, and Linden Streets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Garageless Car Owners Find No Welcome Mats | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...appreciation of services rendered to our cause at the Security Council," read the front-page advertisement in Cairo's Al Assas (The Foundation), "our premises present, for ten days only, at less than cost price, Paris El Khoury silk at $2.41 per meter and Gromyko satin at $1.99 per meter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: At the Bazaar | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

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