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Word: parks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nineties, and the costumes have a bustley charm; but the girls who wear them are addicted to Technicolor simpers. The love stories of the two young couples (Dennis Morgan and Dorothy Malone, Don DeFore and Janis Paige) reach a high point when they go for a spin in the park in a horseless carriage-a singularly low-voltage form of sparking. Not much else happens to them except that they pair off and get married. One lad goes to jail for a short stretch, while the other becomes an alderman. It seems likely that the jailbird gets the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 17, 1949 | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...present one-hour limit on side streets doesn't give the average shopper enough time to make all his purchases without coming back to renew the meter," Dow explained. A two-hour limit might also attract new customers to Square stores, since it would be possible for them to park their cars a few blocks away and make all their purchases within the meter time-limit, he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Businessmen Suggest New 2-Hour Meter | 1/13/1949 | See Source »

Thomas A. Masterson of Adams House and Elkins Park, Penn.: Adams House Committee; Chairman Entertainment Committee; Chairman Student Council Committee on '48 Elections; Delegate ISS Italian Study Tour; Varsity Fencing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '49 Class Committee Candidates | 1/12/1949 | See Source »

Convertibles v. Textbooks. Once it was considered hilarious when the engineers kidnaped the law president, and paraded him up & down State Street in a monkey cage stolen from Vilas Park Zoo. The returning G.I. generation had little heart and less time for such pranks; it hit the books with a sense of urgency, of "lost" years to make up. The G.I.s did well: they consistently studied harder, and averaged higher grades, than nonveterans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The First Hundred Years | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

Even before the kickoff in the National Football League championship this week, a driving storm had blanketed Philadelphia's Shibe Park. Gridiron markings were blotted out under four inches of snow. But television, radio and newsreel companies had paid $33,000 for rights to the game, and a postponement would have been costly. Commissioner Bert Bell ruled that first downs would be decided by referee's instinct instead of tape measure, and assigned extra judges to call out-of-bounds plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Snowball | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

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