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Word: oed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diamondback terrapin soup and the baked seafood canape, White House Press Secretary Charlie Ross approached the dais with a sheaf of figures in hand. Harry Truman rose, grinning, and without waiting for the formality of an introduction, said into the mike: "I have some early election returns. Lehman and O'Dwyer seem to be winning. It looks pretty good." After the Boston ice cream pie had been cleared away, the President rose again to announce "the latest returns on the Lehman-Dulles fiasco - and it will be just that when Lehman gets through with him . . . We have a report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: A Most Happy Evening | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Valpey was still undecided as to his starting eleven after the practice. He listed a tentative offensive group, however: Bob DiBlasio and Stretch Mazzone, ends; Doug Bradlee and Chief Bender tackles; Howie Houston and Will Davis, guards; Paul O'Brien, center; Bill Henry, quarterback; John West, fullback; Roche, tailback; Hal Mefile wingback...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: Spirited Eleven Holds Last Workout Before Yale Game, Departs Today | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

...Chicago Deadline" is a picture with a Twist. It's not an O. Henry twist, either, because you can see it coming from about the second sequence, and apparently the audience is supposed to see it. Alan Ladd, it seems, is in love with a girl who dies before he sees her for the first time...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: Chicago Deadline | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

...varsity's defensive line, from left to right, consisted of Stretch Mazzone, Howie Boston, Sam Butler, Will Davis, and Pete Leavitt. The second line included Fred Ravreby, Dick Guidera, Bill Rosenau, Doug Bradice, and Bobby Ray. The backers-up were first Phil Isenberg, Paul O'Brien, and West; then Dave Warden, Jerry Kanter, and Chuck Glynn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kenary May Play Against Bulldogs | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

...handful of married students and six commuters still have not paid their Radcliffe dues, which were supposed to be paid by October 19, student government treasurer, Jean O'Brien '51, announced last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe News in Brief | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

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