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Word: overlies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead, he is more interested in what happens to the handful who survive to wander over the bare world like ants in the hand of God. Two of the survivors, Ish and Em, meet and begin as bravely as Adam & Eve to repopulate the world. Soon others join them, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Doomster | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

The on-again, off-again romances and marriages in Hollywood give newspaper and magazine editors the willies. They never know when they will be caught cooing over a couple that has stopped billing. When Shirley Temple and John Agar suddenly called it quits, the Detroit Free Press was thus booby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Compromised by a Cutie | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

In spite of the excitement it raised among French politicians, the crisis was not a particularly acute one. The only danger lay in the possibility that a failure of the center parties to reunite would make national elections necessary, and that the extremist partics, the Communists and de Gaulle's...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

When the club placed its counterproposal on its annual election ballot last week as a referendum, over 50 per cent of the student body voted 1224 to 78 against the administration.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown Invokes Ban on Liquor; Frats May Die | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Harvard's 22 to 14 victory over Holy Cross here Saturday was like a good western. It got fairly exciting at times, but somehow you felt everything would come out all right in the end.

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Crimson Beat Crusaders On Ground Plays | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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