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Word: rashly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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These perseverent jalopy-lovers are refusing to put their vehicles into hibernation for the winter and to await the usual rash of outworn rattlotraps which breaks out every spring in Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Jalopies' or 'Antiques,' Some Student Cars Go On Forever | 12/17/1949 | See Source »

Meanwhile, a rash of "sabotage" trials had broken out in Poland. The head of the state farms in Qlsztyn was sentenced to be hanged for "deliberately failing to carry out the state plan." In Lodz, five state bank directors were sent to prison for "mismanagement of state finances." So much administrative talent had been axed that President Bierut found it necessary to instruct party officials to avoid "all hasty and imprudent dismissals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: The Blind | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...Student Body President Art Whitman, a distant cousin of the founder, the students went to work in a rash of pep talks and rallies. At one rally, members of the faculty showed how they felt by turning up in football uniforms. Then the crusade moved into downtown Walla Walla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Will to Win | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...aftermath have not brought in their wake any sudden upturn in business ethics. And while most local tradesmen treat students fairly, there are always a few on the periphery of the Square business world who are governed by the famous motto of P. T. Barnum. The recent rash of threatened suits against a local furniture dealer is evidence of this condition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Consumer First Aid | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

Scar repents his way straight to the electric chair. Later, he repents some more by coming from another world (not clear whether heaven or hell) with 14 subordinate mobsters to protect Lu, who is now an Army nurse on the battlefield. Somewhat taken aback by this rash of miracles, Red O'Shea admits

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Get the Angle Yet? | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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