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Word: pranked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dean's Office affairs," he wrote for his class' twenty-fifth alumni report, "and my claims as an economist are feeble." In the printing of the book the last word was altered to read "feeble-minded" but this Dean Leighton laughs about and possibly regards as a delayed "College" prank...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Delmar Leighton: "A Sort of Beadle" | 10/7/1948 | See Source »

...much good for commercial use, and has no resale value, so police reason that the large balloon, last seen floating over the local delicatessen, was stolen as a student prank...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Delicatessen Fishing for Lost Balloon with $50 Bait | 10/6/1948 | See Source »

...those musicals where expense is no object, and presumably entertainment isn't one either. Bits of the dancing aside, it offers $200,000 worth of tedious bad taste about a young man who plays the heroine in a varsity show; his picture (submitted as a prank) wins a Hollywood beauty contest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, May 17, 1948 | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

Neighborhood Kids' Prank...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mysterious Blaze Rouses Residents In Eliot, Kirkland | 1/27/1948 | See Source »

...They weren't our rubbish cans or garbage cans from the dining hall," he asserted. "They must have been brought and lit by some neighborhood kids as in prank. Spontaneous combustion seems unlikely since everything was out in the open with plenty of air in the cans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mysterious Blaze Rouses Residents In Eliot, Kirkland | 1/27/1948 | See Source »

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