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Word: raiding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ever-popular subject of sex or to typical political promises of unlimited liquor. The possibilities of the air-waves did not escape the attention of two candidates, who played "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette" from their Holworthy window all yesterday afternoon, until cut short by a University police raid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smoker Campaign at Peak As Strippers Aid Politicians | 12/13/1947 | See Source »

...Davis, "is not that our ears sometimes fail us, but rather that they stand the racket as well as they do." At 120 decibels (the noise of a nearby plane engine), the ear begins to feel uncomfortable; at 130 decibels, it tickles; at 140 decibels (near a powerful air-raid siren), it hurts, and grows temporarily deaf. But even a shattering noise rarely causes complete deafness. The commonest causes of deafness (besides old age) are 1) inflammation of the middle ear (otitis media), usually due to a head cold; and 2) a bony growth in the middle ear (otosclerosis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Miraculous Instrument | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...Where Is It?" Many Greeks, ready to fight, wonder why they do not get the U.S. help they have been promised. I visited a village in Thrace where, the night before, guerrillas had carried out a raid, burning four houses and abducting three men and a woman, plus a good part of the village's winter food supply. There I was asked: "Where is this American aid? We heard a lot about it for months but we haven't seen any of it yet. The Communists always told us it wouldn't come. We didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: THE BATtLE FOR GREECE | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

Five young Jews were killed in Palestine by British troops and police in a raid on a school operated by the Jewish underground...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Truman to Ask Foreign Aid, Price Action Before Special Congress; Reuther Faction Gains in U.A.W. | 11/13/1947 | See Source »

...shares fell soon afterward, Sharon resorted to a common technique: he sold most of his stock to avoid paying stock assessments, knowing that he could buy it back cheap when new ore was uncovered. At this point Mackay and his partner Jim Fair, as a gamble, began their own raid on Hale & Norcross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gamblers' Millions | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

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