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Word: pittsburgh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your spelling [TIME, April 18] of baling wire as "bailing wire" is haywire. Baling wire is commonly known as hay wire and the term "haywire" originates from the fact that when a thing is repaired with baling wire it usually remains haywire-although this was not true of the Pittsburgh Pirates last year ... In any case, "bailing wire" is haywire and baling wire is the true hay wire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 9, 1949 | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Inventory. In Pittsburgh, the thief who broke into a gasoline station left a note for Owner Henry C. Evert: "Sorrier I brock your dorr. I got flash light. I got 55?. Thnks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 9, 1949 | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Philadelphia (Meyer) 4, Pittsburgh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Sports | 5/7/1949 | See Source »

Brooklyn (Martin) 7, Cincinnati 5 New York (Behrman) 3, Pittsburgh 2 St. Louis (Munger) 3, Philadelphia 2 Washington (Haefner) 5, St. Louis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Sports | 5/6/1949 | See Source »

...York 11, Pittsburgh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Sports | 5/5/1949 | See Source »

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