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Word: recounts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...caught Morgan with 13 dead ducks, Brown with 16; but He-Man Gable had been staggering along with 25 (21 above the legal limit). Nonsense, Gable huffed, he had not shot a single duck. After consultation with an M-G-M lawyer, the warden decided that, on recount, Gable had really shot only six. With everybody (except the ducks) feeling better, the party was fined $200 apiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Thoughts for Today | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...Recount. In Waukesha, Wis., indignant Audrey Shefloe sued for divorce; she had discovered, said she, that her husband had two fingers missing on each hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 1, 1947 | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

Said Woop last night when conceded the election. "Recount? 'Smecount...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Woop Machine Rolls in Bow Polls | 11/14/1947 | See Source »

Only three newcomers to the notorious politics of Cambridge's Poon Ring survived elections yesterday, as cigarsmoking, derby-hatted Clemens B. Woop VI tightened his grasp over the lives of the Bow Street slum sections. In the traditional first-thirteenth in November recount, Woop carried all two electoral districts, dropping only 23 to his pawky opponent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Woop Machine Rolls in Bow Polls | 11/14/1947 | See Source »

With traditional contempt for the churlish mouthings of eynies, Harvard undergraduates have energetically launched the Food Relief Committee on its current drive to aid European students. Last night a brief recount of the contributions to date showed that the College program was rumbling down the alley with increasing speed, surpassing in some houses the amazing $4.60 average donation of last summer's campaign. With the exception of one well-padded hardease who responded to the solicitor's pleas with a zine penny, students have expressed sincere concern and admirable generosity towards the tubercular scholars of Greece and China. However...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Wheel Drive | 3/6/1947 | See Source »

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