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Word: pasted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Puritans had made it two straight over Kirkland and Leverett before being held to a 6-6 tie by a surprising Dudley eleven. On past performances, however, Adams will be favored...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams, Eliot Out To Hold Unbeaten House Standings | 10/25/1949 | See Source »

...Federal Reserve Board's antitrust hearings in San Francisco against Transamerica Corp. last week entered their second year. For the past year, FRB has been trying to do two things: i) prove that Transamerica is a monopoly, and 2) force it to sell its holdings in Bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Shrewd Coincidence | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...Maupassant's reputation among literary critics has steadily declined over the past 20 years, but his stories are still read by people who like tart, sharp character sketching, mildly risque situations and ingenious twist endings. Even critics who think his work contrived and superficial will mainly agree that no other writer save Chekhov has so enormously influenced the shape of the modern short story. De Maupassant's own life story, as told in Francis Steegmuller's breezy and readable biography, seems itself like one of his more mordant sketches-flashy, melodramatic and highly painful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Have It Out in Heaven | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Inside, La Flamme's is neat without being gaudy. There are no pennants and very few tonic bottles; the woodwork is distinctive, everything is quite plain and simple. La Flamme's retains a great deal from the past, because its two present owners don't believe in major changes and because that's the way its people seem to like things...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...past two years B. F. Skinner, professor of psychology, has been running a slot machine for pigeons in the Psychological Laboratories under Memorial Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mem Hall Gambling Den Is for the Birds | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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