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Word: putting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brown, beaten about and generally abused by most of her football playmates up until the very recent past, has a fairly capable team this year. This became evident shortly after Saturday's game started, as Rip Engle's able young men immediately put the Harvards in an unenviable position and kept the upper hand for the rest of the afternoon. They ultimately...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Early Brown Score Sets Victory Pattern | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...fancy seizes you-or a smooth, varnished wood-and-iron chair, carved to fit your bottom, screwed immovably to the floor, with the right arm designed for writing on, that is widened enough to take one roundish shaped piece of paper or a clip-board, no place to put your elbow, a sort of island in a useless unfriendly void...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sever Seats Alarm | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Like most Rhodes scholars I like it here, enjoy my work, find the English hospitable and kind. The Rhodes scholarships, to my mind, are the best use to which diamonds have ever been put...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Harry Truman was out to see the people, to be seen by the people, and to put on the act at which he has no current peer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Like Old Times | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...sound trucks broke into a menacing roar: "We will not be stopped by blue-coated fascists." Onlookers could not agree on what happened next, but the Ben Davis victory parade suddenly degenerated into a near-riot. Hundreds of bystanders were caught up in the melee. The police put in a call for reinforcements, charged into marchers and bystanders alike, swinging their nightsticks. Then, from the tenements lining Lenox Avenue, a sudden, furious bombardment of bricks, empty bottles, broomsticks, tin cans and pots rained down on the cops. It was over as suddenly as it began. In 15 minutes of violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Harlem Homecoming | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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