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Word: returning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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They reported the robbery to police, claiming that the leg was worth $20 and had been borrowed, and that the garter had "sentimental value." They printed a letter in The Dartmouth, asking for its return, but it never showed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Maid Finds Gam on the Lam After Three Months Astray | 2/9/1949 | See Source »

...Girls Return for Classes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Skip Registration At Radcliffe | 2/9/1949 | See Source »

Nevertheless there will be one big factor on Harvard's side--the return to the first line of Lew Preston, large left wing who last year went to Europe on the A.A.U.'s olympic sextet, the team that didn't play. Two seasons before, in 1945-46, Preston was one of eastern college hockey's highest scorers...

Author: By Douglasm. Fouquet, | Title: Underdog Sextet Faces BU Tonight | 2/9/1949 | See Source »

...brings to the role of the Italian-American wine producer are unsurpassed. He spends the entire second act in bed, recuperating from two broken legs. His gestures and facial expressions, worthy of pantomime, carry not only that act, but the whole play. I found myself waiting impatiently for his return each time he was absent from the stage. This pretty well covers the performance of his colleagues--adequate, but unlike Muni, bound to their creaking vehicle...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: The Playgoer | 2/9/1949 | See Source »

...kept right on with Wagner, but did not present Madame Butterfly, because of the opera's cozy attitude toward the Japanese; it was quietly restored to the repertory five months after V-J day. Since war's end, Norwegian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad had been allowed to return to U.S. concert halls (despite protests and picket lines), but German Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler (TIME, Jan 17) had been told by some of the most outstanding of concert soloists that he'd better not try. Gieseking's own case had raised the biggest postwar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Conflict | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

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