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Word: ointments (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bevies of Angelo's and Anna's relatives welcomed the happy couple, but there was a small fly in the ointment. Naples, and the world, had changed in three decades; Angelo's brothers were anti-Catholic Communists; Anna's people, the Coronas, were anti-Communist Catholics. Queerly enough, they all lived in the same building, on the Via Padre Ludovico da Casoria, near Naples' biggest market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 16-22-81-38 | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...Little, president of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. ($350,000); A. A. Somerville, vice president of Manhattan's R. T. Vanderbilt Co., Inc., which distributes chemicals ($319,398); Seton Porter, president of National Distillers Products Corp. ($310,000); Theodore Seltzer, president of Bengue Inc., which makes Ben-Gay ointment ($295,613); and G. A. Bryant, president of a Cleveland building firm, Austin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAGES & SALARIES: The Top Ten | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...Lion ointment is the crippling lack of reserve strength which may force Little to play the entire game with less than fifteen men. Although the first eleven is a strong, experienced unit, the reserves are far below standard. Pass defense, which spelled disaster in the two losses the Lions sustained last season (Penn and Yale) seemed much improved in the Rutgers opener in which Columbia intercepted four of 21 Scarlet passes, and could have had two others were it not for fourth down situations...

Author: By Dave Iliff, (SPORTS EDITOR, COLUMBIA SPECTATOR) | Title: Columbia in Top Condition for Game | 10/2/1948 | See Source »

...dance of Lasell Junior College will get underway no later than 8 P.M., Saturday night, October 2. The girls want 100 sophomores and freshmen to sample the punch, dance, and do card tricks and are quick to admit there will be 200 of them. The only files in the ointment are M.I.T., B.C., B.U., and Tufts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Men Wanted" Sign Hangs at Lasell J. C. | 9/29/1948 | See Source »

Proving that its loss to Brown on Monday was only a fly in the ointment, the Freshman baseball team contrived its fourth tie game of the season yesterday afternoon at South Byfield as it matched Governor Dummer Academy, 1 to 1, in 12 innings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yard Nine Draws Dummer, 1-1, for Season's 4th Tie | 4/23/1948 | See Source »

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