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Word: nones (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commissioner Pugmire goes to the office with him two or three mornings a week. As is the army rule, she holds the same rank as her husband. Their five children are all married, but to the commissioner's deep disappointment, none of them followed him into active army service. One reason they didn't, he thinks, was because of the shock of coming back to the U.S. after their early years spent in the Orient. "The clash of life in the U.S., after the quiet of the Far East," he says, "was very exciting to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Was a Stranger ... | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Crimson goalie Johnny Chase, however, didn't have it so good. For most of the first two periods he had his defense in his lap, obliterating his view, and none of the goals scored resulted from a lapse by Chase...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Boston College Defeats Sextet, 8-5 | 12/21/1949 | See Source »

...like Sophie Tucker but was labelled Italian Dolly. The undressed dolls are more active this year than ever before. One boasts of a "real soft nose and almost human ears." This one promised also to blow bubbles when given a pipe. They all can drink water this year (though none are built to retain it), and the manufacturers have provided "changes" for those unimaginative mothers who demand that their little ones behave just like them...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE WALRUS SAID | 12/21/1949 | See Source »

...Student Council has just finished conducting an election. In the process of nominating, voting, and counting ballots a ludicrous number of irregularities occurred. None was unavoidable. The Class Committee election could have come off without a hitch if it had been properly managed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Election Confusion | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

...Remotely Possible." Shaggy-looking, Oxford-educated Witness Wadleigh admitted that he had been a Communist "collaborator," that he had carried off State Department documents for Chambers and another underground courier named David Carpenter. He had delivered about 400 of them. But he swore that none of the Government's exhibits had been among them. Cross questioned him closely and with relish about "stealing" official papers, a word which obviously displeased Wadleigh, then led him to an examination of the 54 documents in evidence. After a long period of questioning and paper-shuffling, Lawyer Cross drew forth an admission calculated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: Woman with a Past | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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