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Word: roam (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...traditional Christmas switch is on again, as University students slip furtively in and out of women's shops and 'Cliffedwellers roam the haberdasheries. But no matter from what angle one looks at the situation, crowds are swarming the stores, gobbling up anything and everything that will fit into Yule wrappings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shops Packed As Yule Rush Reaches Peak | 12/16/1947 | See Source »

...Thousands of deer, quail, ducks, wild turkeys and antelope roam what is probably the nation's biggest wildlife preserve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Big as All Outdoors | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

Where the delegates roam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Full Steam | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...little lady with the bright grey eyes had peculiar tastes and peculiar ways. She would roam through back-country towns in her black Hupmobile, stopping at every antique shop and every likely-looking old house to ask permission to poke about a spell. She cared not a jot for antique furniture; what she wanted were old portrait paintings, still-lifes on velvet, birth certificates with watercolor designs around the edges, rusty weathervanes and peeling figureheads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lady Raider | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...retired Canadian lumber dealer, Williamson was used to playing a lone hand. After acquiring a Ph.D. in geology at McGill University, he went to South Africa to work for a copper mine in 1934. He quit to roam the veldt in search of diamonds. After he found them (according to one story, a native found a diamond and took him to the site), he settled down to mining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: Diamond Cut Diamond | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

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