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Word: ridings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next year-was lending his oratorical flair to the auction of 44 state-owned automobiles. Reason: during his campaign for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination last summer, Lawyer Clement had pointed a shaming finger at the well-wheeled Gordon Browning administration and promised: "In my administration, no state commissioner will ride in a car above the level of a Ford, Chevrolet or Plymouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Action by Auction | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

...first meetings of the new armistice talks it was clear that the road to a settlement was not going to be a downhill ride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Eliminating Apprehensions | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

Four Star Playhouse (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). David Niven in Night Ride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, may 4, 1953 | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

...used in the classrooms, the school board had at first obviously no desire to change much else. To avoid trouble, it even offered to pay the Larson children's tuition to the public school in nearby McHenry. But Mrs. Larson would have none of it. The daily bus ride, said she, would be too long, and "besides, Johnsburg is our school, too. Why should our kids have to go some place else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hot Potato | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

...while, Social Relations was known as a glorious gut, and if attracted many "free-ride boys". The Department has been struggling to cut down this excess enrollment and now reports that the "free riders" are a thing of the past...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: History & Literature to Social Relations | 4/23/1953 | See Source »

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