Word: peeped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rifle, which has a peep sight and range and windage adjustments, is so accurate that a reasonably good shot can hit a thumbnail-sized target at 30 feet. Yet the pellet travels slowly enough to be dangerous only to eyes...
...Mclntosh is a youthful woman with bobbed, reddish-gold hair and a set of firm opinions. A basic one: it is "tragic" that so many educated women "settle down into domesticity and never raise a peep again." Mrs. Mclntosh speaks on this subject with impressive authority. Educated at Bryn Mawr, Johns Hopkins and Cambridge, she began to teach in 1922, married ten years later. Now the mother of five children, she has done an unruffled job of juggling career and family...
...First Ward was a politician's paradise. Its bawdy districts, "Little Cheyenne" and "the Levee," were solid with gambling joints, peep shows, flophouses and saloons, and harbored the riffraff of half a continent. The First Ward's blocks of bordellos ran from haughty establishments like the Everleigh house (wine: $12 downstairs; $15 in a room), to a "Bedbug Row" of noisome prostitutes' cribs. The jangle of its pianos never stopped...
Your research regarding Joseph Smith and the "golden tablets later translated into the Book of Mormon" seems to have been very limited. Not only does Mormon history fail to corroborate your footnote [TIME, Sept. 9]-"Smith sternly refused to show the tablets, warned that a mere peep would cause instant death, himself examined them through 'magic spectacles' "-but on the contrary the testimony of eleven witnesses ... is printed on one of the first few pages of every Book of Mormon published...
...Wait-if you want the last peep in pens-for the new Rocket, the pen with the radiumed point, for only...