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Word: petered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time a Class has held its 25th get-together, according to Peter E. Pratt '40, director of the Alumni Records Office, the frivolity of costumes has usually worn off and the custom has been abandoned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Festivities | 6/9/1948 | See Source »

...Unknown. In Brighton, England, Zoo Keeper Peter Gibbs banged his head on a metal post, fell into a monkey cage, woke up shortly to find one of the animals seated on his chest, delightedly twirling his 15-inch mustaches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 7, 1948 | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...snowplows removed 99 million tons of snow, and opened 5,000 miles of streets. He created a successful agency for mediating labor disputes. He engaged in an uphill battle to encourage housing construction. The new trend: great groups of apartment houses like the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.'s Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town. After backing and filling for months, he screwed up his courage to raise subway fares from a nickel to a dime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Big Bonanza | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...Peter Pan Handicap (Sat. 3:45 p.m., CBS and CBS Television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jun. 7, 1948 | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...Their chief complaint: the commission's statement does nothing to clear up the church's ancient ambiguity on the subject of the "historic episcopate," Episcopalian equivalent of the Roman Catholic doctrine of Apostolic Succession (an unbroken line of bishops consecrated by bishops traced directly back to St. Peter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Vineyard, May 31, 1948 | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

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