Word: mislaid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pair of scientists is its easy acceptance by the Times and the times. Two practical-minded men are deciding when the human race can be wiped out; one says in a few years, the other claims it will take much longer. The important decision seems to have been mislaid: "Could the Human Race be Smart Enough to Prevent the Use of a Hydrogen-Cobalt Bomb...
Chief Randall's office, however, aims to please, No efforts are spared in tracking down the owner of mislaid merchandise who is then notified of his carelessness through a polite postcard...
Nothing was found on the girls, who were the only ones left in Briggs on Thursday, and nobody tried to cash the check at a bank. Head resident Mrs. Mason Garfield called the whole thing a false alarm and guessed that the check "had probably blown away or been mislaid...