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Word: oed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midafternoon, with five Secret Servicemen as companions, he slipped away to a hideaway in a hotel at Excelsior Springs, 22 miles north of Kansas City. There he had a mineral bath, a rubdown, a sandwich and a glass of buttermilk. By 7 o'clock he was in bed. His aides, who were established in the eleventh-floor penthouse suite of Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel, were gloomy; they had felt all along that election night would be like a wake. Harry Truman woke up several times during the night and telephoned to the Muehlebach. At about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Country Boy's Faith | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Harvard Princeton DiBlasio (190) LER McKenna (195) Davis (195) LTR Robertson (203) Houston (200) LGR Palin (200) O'Brien (210) C Cohn (180) Coan (200) RGL Moore (198) Bender (205) RTL Buxton (210) Fiorentine (180) REL Mead (195) Henry (190) QB Chandler (192) Noonan (170) LHR Sella (175) O'Donnell (162) RHL Leibert (180) Shafer (192) FB Weber (183) Kickoff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Starting Lineups at Princeton | 11/6/1948 | See Source »

Over 500 people have turned back their Princeton tickets to the H.A.A. this week, Manager Frank O. Lunden reported last night, but there will still be a sizable Crimson representation at Palmer Stadium for tomorrow's game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 500 Drop Out of Tigertown Trek, Sell Back Tickets | 11/5/1948 | See Source »

Under Coach Fritz Crisler, the Tigers rolled to a 19 to O victory over the Crimson, but all was sweetness and light.Said the Dally Princeton, "It is up to the present undergraduate body to make sure that the present bond of good feeling is further strengthened and cemented together...

Author: By Sedgwick W. Green, | Title: Lampoon Nearly Ended Tiger Rivalry | 11/5/1948 | See Source »

...Democratic majority will be a far more liberal body than the recent group of Southerners which was sprinkled with New Deal remnants. Besides the replacement of several Republicans with sides the replacement of several Republicans with moderate or progressive Democrats, CIO-supported Lyndon Johnson has Lee O'Daniel's Texas seat, and Estes Kefauver whipped the Crump machine in Tennessee this summer as well as the Republicans this week. Democratic mossbacks are still to be reckoned with, but their influence has suffered considerably from the Republican debacle...

Author: By David E. Lilienthal jr., | Title: The Democratic Senate | 11/5/1948 | See Source »

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