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Word: piper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...Washing ton, D.C. last week, the National Symphony Orchestra announced a scheme for making the tariff ($67 top for the 26-concert season) easier to take. Through the cooperation of Washington's Hecht Co. department store, music lovers could order series tickets on their charge accounts, pay the piper when they settled for their millinery and haberdashery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Charged Symphonies | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

...little PT boats mounting nothing stronger than 20-mm. guns. Smith improvised his own artillery preparation by firing the guns of his tanks while they were still offshore in the assault craft. Since air support from Army planes failed to arrive, Smith's air support consisted of one Piper cub which dropped eight hand grenades behind the enemy beach. In spite of these crudities, the Willaumez operation was successful; Smith got a Bronze Star, the first of his three World War II decorations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMAND: The Road from Willaumez | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

Wellesley's Ola Elizabeth Winslow, 55, Pulitzer Prizewinning biographer (Jonathan Edwards), authority on American literature, who could never walk across the campus without a pocketful of seeds for the birds, catnip for the cats, and a troop of neighbors' children following, Pied Piper fashion, behind. Up at 5, she was a prodigious and painstaking worker, gently persuaded a whole generation of students to take after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Goodbye, Messrs. Chips | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

...went ahead again in the third inning without a hit. Al Piper walked, stole second and scored on a two base muff by Greeley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Varsity, Freshman Nines Lose to BU | 4/26/1950 | See Source »

Cleverly concedes that the Terrier hitting has also been good. Cleanup batter Gone Subrisi has been knocking in most of the runs for BU, while the speedy Piper is a threat on the bases...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '53 Nine to Seek 5th Straight Win Against BU Today | 4/25/1950 | See Source »

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