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Word: ovens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...himself expertly on a mantelpiece, and quotes poetry on the run. He also apparently has quite a past, with dire hints of such escapades as pushing a boy off a roof, breaking the hearts of countless women (one of whom, it seems, subsequently stuck her head in a gas oven,) and driving his college roommate to hanging himself--a Harvard, inevitably...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: The Playgoer | 4/29/1949 | See Source »

Tall, 23-year-old William L. Cox is a cocky, capable truckman and he drives a big rig-a tractor and a double-tank trailer. Some of his admiring fellow truckers would say that sharp-eyed Billy could roll his rig through an oven door without jarring the roast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Take It Easy | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Life in Akir has few refinements. Moshe Ben Yaacov Libby, a lean, swarthy immigrant from Yemen, lives with his family of five in a rusty, corrugated-iron shelter. They cook Arab style over an open clay oven and eat from a rough board supported by orange crates. Moshe's wife has found only occasional work picking oranges, and the 'family's stake is going for food. But Moshe, who spent three years in a British detention camp in Aden, plans to stay. He says: "The Arabs of Yemen hated us. There we had a three-story house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: IT BELONGS TO US | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...goes bad and does a fine job of it. He starts out by rolling drunks in alleys, works the reform school circuit for a while, swaggers up to be a big gun in his thoroughly realistic neighborhood, drives his good faithful wife to sticking her head in the gas-oven, and finally is hauled up on a cop-killing charge. Bogart, who has also come up from the ranks, but switched to the right side of the tracks via a stretch at night law school, decides to take Derek's case...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...fullback positions Rick Drake and Mike Scully have played all of the close games. Both are oven 6' 2'' and as a Dartmouth forward said, "They run like gazelles." Scully played fullback last fall for the Crimson while two years ago Drake played at Cornell...

Author: By Robert Cahswell, | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/12/1948 | See Source »

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