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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alan Ladd plays a reporter who happens to be in a boarding house when a beautiful young woman is discovered dead there. He is struck by her beauty, and makes off with her address book before the usual cluck D. A. arrives. Using the address book, Ladd sniffs around trying...

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

In the last two periods, Calhoun scored the only Crimson goal as the superior teamwork and flashy passes of the Cornell team paid off for an even dozen.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Red Poloists Trample Crimson | 11/15/1949 | See Source »

Dirty Looks. Venus had some right to feel dissatisfied with life on Olympus. Juno was forever quarreling with Jupiter, and whenever the conversation got lively she was apt to interrupt with, "Would you mind, all of you, finishing your soup before it's cold?" or "Don't forget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Things Homer Never Knew | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Dr. Semmelweis was skeptical. His first clue to the real cause was statistics showing that mortality in the First Division ward was much higher than in the others. His second clue-the death of a fellow doctor-paid off. The doctor had cut his finger while dissecting a corpse; a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Pesth Fool | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

This time Bemelmans pops the cork in a village of the Tyrol, where he spent part of his boyhood. Out comes a bubbling mixture of beautiful spies who refuse to be seduced, mountaineers who outwit pockmarked Nazis, and emigrant sons who write home from America: "Chopping wood one day recently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nosegay | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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