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Word: postman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such a letter was subsequently received at Eliot House the writer must have carried it there himself. Louis F. Geiffrion Postman in Harvard Yard

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THROUGH WIND AND RAIN. . . | 5/5/1955 | See Source »

First Things First. In Tauranga. New Zealand, Postman James Duncan, 41, was fined $56 after post-office repairmen found under the floor boards 1,200 Christmas letters, which Duncan had hidden there when he realized that he had no time to deliver the mail and attend a Christmas Eve party as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 2, 1955 | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...Revolution? "You know, during most Latin American revolutions, the traffic cop still directs traffic, the postman still delivers mail and life goes on pretty much as usual as far as the foreigner and the foreign investor are concerned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Challenge & Opportunity | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

...postman will point out, publicity is not a seasonal thing-nor is it limited to a single sport...

Author: By L.k. Sronson, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 12/15/1954 | See Source »

...Bertie Wooster would be to play Siegfried. The bulk of the novel describes his trials. Some of them would scarcely faze a cub scout, and there is so much hiking in fog and snow, up hill and through bog, that Frodo seems at times like a mythical postman. His enemies, however, send shivers rippling along the spine: toeless, green-scaled Ores, fire-breathing Balrogs, Barrow-wights who put their prey in a catatonic trance, and the Ringwraiths, nine black-shrouded riders on nine black horses. Frodo and friends best them all, but in the modern manner, more by muddling through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Weirdies | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

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