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Word: misses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Council's executive board gave the YP's permission for late chartering after Progressive president Miss Davis '52 complained that her group had not been notified when regular rechartering processes were in progress three weeks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Council Recharters YP's | 5/24/1949 | See Source »

Like the unfortunate hero in Dostoevsky's The Gambler, Miss Stanwyck is essentially a decent person consumed by a hopeless passion for pitting the probable against the possible. Her downfall begins during a brief visit to Las Vegas, where she meets a suave professional gambler (Stephen McNally) and takes her first innocent fling at roulette. While her journalist husband (Robert Preston) is busy on an assignment, she takes a few more flings. By this time Barbara is a goner. Eventually she loses a wrestling match with her moral scruples, gambles away the family savings, and runs off in shame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 23, 1949 | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

LeRoy was walking down Boylston Street at 10:15 p.m. Friday with a water pistol in his hand. He brandished it in the general direction of Miss Pauline Gunn of Allston, muttered something to the effect of "Stick 'em up," and continued down the street, LeRoy said last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Arraigned For Stickup Prank | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...Miss Gunn walked over to two near by patrolmen, who followed LeRoy to Harvard Square, where Miss Gunn accepted his apologies, he stated. Later Friday, night she telephoned the Cambridge Police Department and filed the two charges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Arraigned For Stickup Prank | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...Miss Agnes Mongan, Curator of Drawings at the Fogg Museum was among ST New Englanders to receive Lafayette Day honors from the French government last Friday. She was awarded the Medal of Honor at the French Consulate in Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wins French Award | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

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