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Word: platee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cathedra. In Wimbledon, England, the Rev. W. A. Gibson noted that there were fewer buttons in the collection plate than there used to be, but came to a bitter conclusion: it was not morality that had increased, but the price of buttons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 6, 1948 | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...Chambers' teeth. He asked: "Are you George Crosley?" Chambers quietly replied: "Not to my knowledge." He remarked that Chambers' voice seemed less resonant than Crosley's, that his teeth were less stained. But when Chambers explained that he had been fitted out with a new dental plate, Hiss tentatively confirmed his earlier identification of him as Crosley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Confrontation | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...three years old and I had the glory of sitting beside her at her birthday tea party. Some of her presents were on the table .. . She was in a frenzy of glee about them, especially about one to which she had given the place of honor by her plate. I said to her as one astounded: 'Is that really your very own?' And she saw how I envied her and immediately placed it between us with the words: 'It is yours and mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Zing! | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...their dentist bills paid by the U.S. Government. Total cost to the taxpayers: $67 million. The claims of 291,330 veterans for free dentistry are now going through the VA works. Another 200,000 are being treated (treatments may include everything from an amalgam filling to a full plate). In 1947 657,254 treatments were given at a cost of $42,698,627. Of these, 600,400 were by local dentists on a fee basis, the rest by the VA's own staff dentists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Uncle Sam, Dentist | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

Filed Out. In Ogdensburg, N.Y., Plate Umpire Donahue glared disgustedly at the obscuring clouds of insects swarming around the arc lights, suspended the night game on account of "eel flies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 9, 1948 | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

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