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Word: neveral (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...full of people who had never been secret agents, movie starlets, U.S. Senators, atomic scientists or stock manipulators. Millions of them had never sat on a flagpole, made the headlines in a love-nest raid or lost a $14,000 Russian sable stole; almost as many had yet to sniff cocaine, snap at a waiter in the Stork Club, sue somebody for libel, own a Jaguar 3½-liter convertible, or pour a champagne cocktail over a blonde's shoulder blades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Other 99.4% | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

From his new post, Secretary Gray, unruffled by his row with the National Guard, looks back longingly on his first Army assignment. "The life of a private is a happy one, one of the happiest periods of my life," he remembers. "I never was called upon to make a decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Happy Private | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

Gordon Clapp, quiet, competent 43-year-old boss of the Government's $800 million public-power empire had something to say, all right. He had never been asked to serve in an Army job, did not even know he had been considered for one, and would not be interested if he were; TVA duties take up all of his time. Next day, the Army, realizing it had been guilty of irresponsible character assassination, beat a hasty retreat. "The Army," said its new Secretary, Gordon Gray, "has never investigated Mr. Gordon R. Clapp and has absolutely no derogatory information about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Nincompoops at Work | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...freshman year, I attended the Harvard-Yale game. I found it interesting enough, but when the fans in my section discovered that I preferred to remain comfortably seated even when our team was scoring, I was booed and hissed from the stands. I never went to another football game...

Author: By Dombe Bastide, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 6/15/1949 | See Source »

...article printed above does not now, and never has, represented the opinion of Donald Carswell, Peter B. Taub, Charles W. Bailey, William S. Fairfield, Bayard Hooper, or any of the CRIMSON's regular sports writers. They left town for the summer two days...

Author: By Dombe Bastide, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 6/15/1949 | See Source »

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