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Word: neb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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KATHRYNE ROHRS Peru, Neb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 17, 1944 | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

Eviction. In Belgrade, Neb., Mrs. Adelia Ward, baffled by a balky drain pipe, finally called a plumber, who went to work, extracted from the pipe 60 hibernating snakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 17, 1944 | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

Counter Point. In Omaha, Neb., Post Office Clerk Neil Chapman braced himself for the remarks of a lady who approached him with one of the office's pens. She wanted the pen point's name & number because it wrote so well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 20, 1943 | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...Lincoln, Neb., Governor Dwight Griswold began reckoning the cost of his bet with 27 other Governors that Nebraska would sell a bigger percentage of bonds. The payoff: a corn-fed hog to each. His problem: how to get around an OPA regulation that he must pay full ration points (about 810 red points-a 50-week supply) for each & every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Missing: Little Man | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

Hearts & Showers. In Falls City, Neb., nine-year-old Jimmy Shafer rode his pony into an auction ring, started weeping as the bidding rose, wept increasingly, set the bidders blubbering, finally caused the auctioneer to sob out: "I just can't do it." The sale was called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 27, 1943 | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

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