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Word: return (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...girl who wears glasses. Start off by asking a woman what she thinks is the most beautiful thing in the world . . . Believe just the opposite of what people say, especially men, and you will be right 98% of the time . . . Gambling diverts men faster than lechery . . . Love, luck, etc. return in cycles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Convict's Dream | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...voice from Paris was curt: "If they are French fleas, Monsieur, they will soon return to France. Swiss skins are too near the surface for our fleas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: Long-Distance Call . .. | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Walter J. Skinner '48, newly elected manager, tried selling the records at a dollar apiece. He got exactly $18. With this he bought stationery and sent out letters to alumni. From the return of $300 he bought more stationery, sent out more letters and received enough money to buy pants for his bandsmen. Skinner also persuaded Mal Holmes to become conductor. Mal, and to hear members tell it, the pants, have been here ever since...

Author: By William M. Simmons, | Title: Band Marks Three Musical Decades | 10/15/1949 | See Source »

...band has had its troubles--there's no question about that either. Ask the Dean's office. There was the Virginia trip that they took, from which they almost didn't return, and there was the Stanford trip, on which they didn't go at all. Their chronic financial ills are well known. Ask the HAA, or better, ask the band's manager. Each year there's the possibility that the band...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Odds On | 10/15/1949 | See Source »

...Ichabod and Mr. Toad," a film happily uncluttered with "live" Hollywood actors, marks Walt Disney's return to the field of the straight animated cartoon. The result is uneven, but its high spots are as completely charming as any of Disney's earlier successes...

Author: By Stophen O. Saxe, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/15/1949 | See Source »

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