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Word: peoria (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish't I was in Peoria, Peoria tonight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: By the River | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

...miss the "goils" in Peoria, Peoria tonight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: By the River | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

Left guard Purvis Collins is a South Carolinian, with Junior College hoop experience, while V-12er Bill Burk makes his home in Peoria, Illinois...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Five to Open Season Against Invading Squantum Quintet Tomorrow | 12/5/1944 | See Source »

Gladys & Milt first met in 1937-and immediately disliked one another intensely. Montgomery Ward had hired Milt to open its new Peoria store, Gladys to run the cooking school. They bickered over the way to run the school until Milt walked into one of Gladys' lectures one day and spotted a pot roast she had cooked. It tasted so good he kissed Gladys in front of the tittering class, 18 months later married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Londonderry Heirs | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

Vicious Circle. In Peoria, Ill., a frustrated burglar gave up after trying four times to crack a safe with a welding torch that promptly sealed up each hole that it melted open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 2, 1944 | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

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