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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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It was a worried Republican Party which itself up off the mat again on election night and ruefully surveyed the returns. The Democrats had won again - in the only Congressional Districts in contest, in the big cities, in upstate New York towns which had been safely Republican for years. Most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Stand for Something | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

From the middle of the speaker's dais, Harry Truman looked out happily over the main ballroom of Washington's Mayflower Hotel, bright with autumn flowers and massed flags. The cream of Democratic womanhood was there-India Edwards, 54, boss of the party's women workers and...

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

For 65 years Philadelphia has suffered its Republican city government as it has the water it drank. Both gave off a faint but unpleasant smell, but a true Philadelphian got used to both. This year, after the exposure of graft, extortion and embezzlement in nearly every city office, the smell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: From the Mire | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

We are no longer the best. This year we are nowhere near the best, as has been made painfully clear in Cambridge as well as New Haven by some good teams and some that are not so good. But whenever we get together the game comes alive: slow men run...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LXVI | 11/19/1949 | See Source »

The radio whined and sputtered threateningly. Vag twirled the dial, but the thin vertical pointer only crossed quick pulses of raucous sound; then he caught one of the noise-streams and stopped to listen. "Let's switch down to the field now and liear the Harvard Band. . ." Vag snickered. He...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 11/19/1949 | See Source »

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